"Noble ladies who have been asleep for two hundred years." Magdalene took his lantern, and threw its light timidly into the dark space.
"What a frightful sight—skeletons in bridal attire!"
"Leave the place."
"One of them has her head covered with a veil."
"Perhaps it is a widow; under the veil is a death's skull."
"It seems to me as if it moved."
"Only your imagination."
"There's a light shines through her cloak."
"Decayed bones do sometimes shed a light."
The knight drew the maiden away from the sight. It is true that sometimes a light does shine through decayed bones and a death skull does see and hear. The maiden in her terror burst into tears. The youth encouraged her tenderly as he took her in his arms.