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