The German Classics Of The Nineteenth And Twentieth Centuries V
Chapter 109
SOPHY (_alone, comes in with a lamp, looks into_ MARY'S _room, puts the lamp upon the table, goes to the window, opens the shutter through which the reflection of the sheet-lightning is visible, looks out; then she closes shutter and window, takes the lamp again, and looks once more into_ MARY'S _room. At intervals she listens and betrays great anxiety_.)
Not yet! What if he's encountered her! What if he's met them together! She ought to be back by this time. Oh, why did I let her go? And Andrew does not come, either! And then this sultry, stormy night!
[_Listens_.]
Surely, that was she? At last! God be praised!
[_Looks into the room_.]
No. It is not she. The wind blew open the half-closed shutter.