Because it is to-night that he is coming.
Wangel.
[Starts.] Coming! He! What has the stranger to do with this?
Ellida.
I want to meet him in full freedom.
Wangel.
And what—what do you intend to do then?
Ellida.
I do not want to take refuge in the plea that I am another man’s wife—or that I have no choice left me. For then my decision would decide nothing.
Wangel.