For it seemed flatly impossible that different people should look exactly and undistinguishably alike.

At last, when the revel broke up, he courteously escorted his daughter and Erik as far as their room, as the manner is at weddings, and went back himself to bed elsewhere.
But Erik suffered Alfhild, who was destined for Frode, to lie apart, and embraced Gunwar as usual, thus outwitting the king.

So Gotar passed a sleepless night, revolving how he had been apparently deluded with a dazed and wandering mind: for it seemed to him no mere likeness of looks, but sameness.

Thus he was filled with such wavering and doubtful judgment, that though he really discerned the truth he thought he must have been mistaken.

At last it flashed across his mind that the wall might have been tampered with.