"A false friend?
I am not a false friend.

A false woman?
Surely the lovely Theodora, your wife--" "I have no wife, Louis, now; I have no wife and no son." ***** In accents broken by grief, the Margrave explained what had occurred.
Gottfried's information was but too correct.

There was a CAUSE for the likeness between Otto and Sir Hildebrandt: a fatal cause! Hildebrandt and Theodora had met at dawn at the outer gate.

The Margrave had seen them.

They walked long together; they embraced.