"Yes, a momentary insanity. And you think my husband will come to-morrow?"
"I am sure of it."
She cast down her eyes and was silent for a moment, while a shudder seemed to pass through her delicate frame.
"Can anything be done to-night?" she asked.
"Nothing by you, madame."
"Well, then farewell, Herr von Werner. It is best you should return to town."
"In fact, I still have much to arrange there."
Agitated as Werner was, he could not but observe the strange alteration in Thea's manner towards him.
"Lothar was really like an own brother to her; the shock and her great suffering have thus changed her," he thought, without dreaming of the real state of her mind.