Parzival wondered still more, but did not venture to ask who it might be.

Next the servants took him to an apartment where he could spend the night.

The tapestry hangings of this room were all embroidered with gorgeous pictures.

Among them the young hero noticed one in particular, because it represented his host borne down to the ground by a spear thrust into his bleeding side.

Parzival's curiosity was even greater than before; but, scorning to ask a servant what he had not ventured to demand of the master, he went quietly to bed, thinking that he would try to secure an explanation on the morrow.
When he awoke he found himself alone.