Braun feared to give me money.
But Hermann was arranging to help me away to Poland, when you came.
Once there I would have been safe from Braun.

He would not have dared to claim me.

And Hermann, the forester, is known to all the officials.

He has charge of the estate.
"Braun feared him.

He dared not take me away, for I would not go.
It has been the slavery of hell itself.