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confessed her tender, clinging love every hour of the day,
and if she had merely had the memory of that morning’s
incident to overcome, she would certainly have won, but
greater forces were arrayed against her.
Ulrik Frederik had gone away an impecunious prince
from a land where the powerful nobility by no means looked
upon the natural son of a king as more than their equal.
Absolute monarchy was yet young, and the principle that
a king was a man who bought his power by paying in kind
was very old. The light of demi-godhead, which in later
days cast a halo about the hereditary monarch, had barely
been lit, and was yet too faint to dazzle any one who did
not stand very near it.
From this land Ulrik Frederik had gone to the army and
court of Philip the Fourth, and there he had been showered
with gifts and honors, had been made Grand d’Espagne and
put on the same footing as Don Juan of Austria. The king
made it a point to do homage in his person to Frederik the
Third, and in bestowing on him every possible favor he
sought to express his satisfaction with the change of
government in Denmark and his appreciation of King Frederik’s
triumphant efforts to enter the ranks of absolute monarchs.
Intoxicated and elated with all this glory, which quite
changed his conception of his own importance, Ulrik
Frederik soon saw that he had acted with unpardonable folly
in making the daughter of a common nobleman his wife.
Thoughts of making her pay for his mistake, confused
plans for raising her to his rank and for divorcing her chased
one another through his brain during his trip homeward.
On top of this came his superstitious fear that his life was
in danger from her, and he made up his mind that until he
could see his course more clearly, he would be cold and
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