She did not start as she used to do when he spoke thus; but a scarcely perceptible vibration passed through her frame, as if the sound of his voice filled her with ecstasy. She smiled a little.
"Hear what?" she asked.
"My question as to why you hadn't been to bed."
"I waited up for you, Herr."
"I did not order you to wait for me."
"Nor did you forbid me, Herr."
He clung to the back of a chair.
"Why are you afraid of her?" he asked himself. "You have just sworn that danger exists no longer."
Then to get rid of her he told her to go and prepare him something hot for breakfast.
She rose deliberately, stretching her stiff limbs. A dreamy languor seemed to pervade her whole being. Since last night she was completely transformed.