Why can I not go to her?
Is it you who stand in my way ?" "I do not know by what right you probe my heart," said Minna, calm in appearance, but inwardly terrified.

"Yes, I love him," she said, recovering the courage of her convictions, that she might, for once, confess the religion of her heart.

"But my jealousy, natural as it is in love, fears no one here below.

Alas! I am jealous of a secret feeling that absorbs him.

Between him and me there is a great gulf fixed which I cannot cross.