Shall I be at Godesberg in time for dinner ?" He has come to see his friend Count Karl, Margrave of Godesberg.
But at Godesberg everything is in distress and sorrow.

There is a new inmate there, one Sir Gottfried, since whose arrival the knight of the castle has become a wretched man, having been taught to believe all evils of his wife, and of his child Otto, and a certain stranger, one Hildebrandt.

Gottfried, we see with half an eye, has done it all.

It is in vain that Ludwig de Hombourg tells his old friend Karl that this Gottfried is a thoroughly bad fellow, that he had been found to be a cardsharper in the Holy Land, and had been drummed out of his regiment.
"'Twas but some silly quarrel over the wine-cup," says Karl.

"Hugo de Brodenel would have no black bottle on the board." We think we can remember the quarrel of "Brodenel" and the black bottle, though so many things have taken place since that.
There is a festival in the castle, and Hildebrandt comes with the other guests.