"No need you can supply now? No sorrow you can soften?
"It is not yet too late.
"I speak no more. Listen to Him.
"I say to you now, not, look forward to the Day, but Ecce Homo—Behold the Man!"
And that night blind Bruno knelt beside his wife Margarethe in the forest-hut, and said, "Beloved, let us say the Lord's Prayer together. I can say it from my heart at last," and gentle tears flowed from his sightless eyes as he murmured, "Forgive, as we forgive."
And in the little turret-chamber of the castle the Baron came and stood beside his daughter's bed, his hands clasped in agony.
"Child," he said, "I come to make thee homeless and a beggar, and to make thee hate me."
And he confessed the whole dark story to her, and told her how he meant to restore the lost inheritance and divest themselves of all.
Then she rose and fell on his breast, and said, "Father, you make me richer than ever I could have been, and you make me love you as I never could before. We will go through the world together, thou and I, until we find the injured kinsman, and restore him all."