I could wish
That she might die!
SCENE VI
Enter GUNTHER with DANKWART, RUMOLT, GISELHER and GERENOT.
UTE (approaching GUNTHER).
My son, what deed was this?
GUNTHER.
I fain would weep myself. Yet of his death
You've heard already? By the holy words
Of our good priest you were to learn of this.
I went to tell him in the night.
UTE (with a motion of the head).
Thou see'st
The dead man told his story for himself.
GUNTHER (aside to DANKWART).