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the corner by the door, as if she would hide
herself as much as possible: her back was
bent, her head almost on a level with her lap,
and her hands folded over it. They said this
unfortunate creature was very young. Two
brothers sat here in two different cells; they
were punished for horse stealing; the one was
still quite a boy.
In one cell was a poor servant girl. They
said: "She has no place of resort, and without
a situation, and therefore she is placed here."
I thought I had not heard rightly, and repeated
my question, "why she was here," but got the
same answer. Still I would rather believe that
I had misunderstood what was said – it would
otherwise be abominable.
Outside, in the free sunshine, it is the busy
day; in here it is always midnight’s stillness.
The spider that weaves its web down the wall,
the swallow which perhaps flies a single time
close under the panes there high up in the wall –
even the stranger’s footstep in the gallery, as he
passes the cell-doors, is an event in that mute,
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