GUNTHER [In great perplexity.

The ring? No ring I gave him,
Though thou dost know it well.

BRÜNNHILDE

Where hast thou hid the ring
That thou didst capture from me?

[Gunther, greatly confused, does not answer.

BRÜNNHILDE [Breaking out furiously.

Ha! He it was
Who despoiled me of the ring—
Siegfried, the treacherous thief!

[All look expectantly at Siegfried, who seems to be lost in far-off thoughts as he contemplates the ring.

SIEGFRIED