aware that the guest under her roof was ardently in love with her, and as explicitly did her own heart make the same avowal in regard to him; but she immediately put the seal of silence upon the discovery, as did also the young man on his side, having sacredly promised himself to keep his tongue and his eyes in subjection, in order not to be exposed to an humiliating rejection, for the partition-wall which fortune had placed between him and Krokus seemed to him insurmountable.
Although the handsome Libussa knew well enough what to answer to the questions of the youth, she was loath to dismiss him so soon. At sun-rise she made him come into her pleasure-garden, and said to him, “The veil of darkness is still before my eyes; to know your destiny, you must wait till sun-set ;” and in the evening she said, “Wait till sun-rise;” and the next day “Stop yet to-day;” and on the third day, “Wait till to-morrow.” On the fourth day she dismissed him at last, for she could find no pretext to keep him any longer, without betraying her secret; and gave him, in kind words, the following answer: “The gods do not wish that you should dispute with one that is powerful in the land; to suffer in patience is the lot of