Wangel.

What makes you think so?

Ellida.

[Without answering.] He came to know, during the voyage, that I had married some one else, while he was away. And then—at the very same moment, this came upon me!

Wangel.

This dread?

Ellida.

Yes. Sometimes, without the smallest warning, I suddenly see him stand bodily before me. Or rather a little to one side. He never looks at me; he is only there.

Wangel.

How does he appear to you?