Ulrich!
ACT V
The FORESTER'S House. Night. For a short time the stage remains empty.
SCENE I
SOPHY (alone, comes in with a lamp, looks into MARY'S room, puts the lamp upon the table, goes to the window, opens the shutter through which the reflection of the sheet-lightning is visible, looks out; then she closes shutter and window, takes the lamp again, and looks once more into MARY'S room. At intervals she listens and betrays great anxiety.)
Not yet! What if he's encountered her! What if he's met them together! She ought to be back by this time. Oh, why did I let her go? And Andrew does not come, either! And then this sultry, stormy night!
[Listens.]
Surely, that was she? At last! God be praised!
[Looks into the room.]
No. It is not she. The wind blew open the half-closed shutter.