KRIEMHILD'S room. Deep night.

KRIEMHILD.

'Tis far too early yet. It is my blood
That wakened me, and not the cock I heard,
Or seemed to hear.

[She goes to the window and opens it partly.]

The stars are shining still,
It surely is an hour yet till mass.
Today I long to go to church and pray.

SCENE IV

Enter UTE softly.

UTE.

Already up, Kriemhild?

KRIEMHILD.