Chapter 16: Prisoned

⁠​​​‌​​​​​​​​‌‌​​‌‌​‌‌‌​‌​‌​‌‌​​‌​​​​‌‌‌​​​‌‌‌‌​‌‌​‌​‌​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌⁠The prince had left the room, and she heard him walk through the work-shop. Silence fell upon the house and the street. The tortured woman, utterly exhausted, sank upon her bed—her feet would support her no longer. But she could get no rest; an indescribable grief filled her heart. Everything had happened precisely as Freyer had predicted. Before the cock crowed, she had thrice betrayed him, betra