Eight o’clock having struck, and the night falling, the members of the court withdrew, deferring till the morrow their final judgment.
LXXI
In Katheline’s cottage Soetkin wept distraught with anguish. And she said over and over again:
“My husband! my poor husband!”
Ulenspiegel and Nele embraced her with utmost tenderness. Then taking them into her arms she wept in silence. And then she signed to them to leave her alone. Nele said to Ulenspiegel:
“Let us leave her there, it is her own wish: let us save the carolus.”
They went away together; Katheline kept moving round Soetkin, saying:
“Make a hole: the soul would fain escape!”
And Soetkin, with fixed eyes, looked at her without seeing her.