And he, no doubt, was a brilliant and beautiful personage?
Maia.
Oh no, he wasn’t so superlatively beautiful either. But he pretended that he would take her with him to the top of the highest of mountains, where there were light and sunshine without end.
Ulfheim.
So he was a mountaineer, was he, that man?
Maia.
Yes, he was—in his way.
Ulfheim.
And then he took the girl up with him——?
Maia.