Sie bildete sich ein, sie sei Rudolfs Frau, seine treue Gattin. Immerwährend träumte sie von seinem dunklen welligen Haar, seiner braunen Stirn, seiner kräftigen und doch eleganten Gestalt, von dem ganzen so klugen und in seinem Begehren doch so leidenschaftlichen Menschen.
Then, while playing the spouse and virtue, she was burning at the thought of that head whose black hair fell in a curl over the sunburnt brow, of that form at once so strong and elegant, of that man, in a word, who had such experience in his reasoning, such passion in his desires.