In the middle of that night Wolf was aroused to consciousness by the voice of Gerda anxiously soothing him; and even in his confusion he was aware at that moment of something exceptionally tender in her tone, something protective, something different altogether from a young creature’s spontaneous alarm at being disturbed in its sleep! It was as if all the agitations of that last fortnight had unfolded some psychic bud or frond within her being, changing her from a capricious child into a full-grown sweet-natured woman.
“What did I say?” he asked, as his head fell back upon the pillow.
“ ‘I shall break between you,’ you cried. ‘I shall break between you!’ And then, when I said, ‘ Between who, Wolf? ’ you said, ‘Between them ! Can’t you see? Between those two men!’ ”