“No.”
“I don’t think so either. You know the right and the wrong of everything between heaven and earth. You are never in doubt and never at a loss. You know at once what is good and what is bad; and then you go away and do what is good.”
He shook his head and said nothing and she grew still more angry:
“You alone know. Whoever does not obey you is lost. There is no room in the house for any but you and those who serve you.”
Cordt bent over her and lifted her up in the chair.
“Be silent for a little, Adelheid,” he said. “And stay quiet for a little.”
But she slipped to the floor again and looked at him defiantly:
“I will not sit in that chair,” she said. “Never again. I am not worthy of the honor. You do not know everything, Cordt. You do not know me.”
He stroked her hair with his two hands and forced her head back:
“Then show yourself to me,” he said.