"Get up, you coward!" cried Siegfried.
"Now tell me what that thing is that I do not know. Fear? What is fear?
Why did you not teach it to me?"
The wicked dwarf slipped to Siegfried's side.
"I will teach you. Come with me. I will show you a horrible serpent,
lying at the door of Hate Cavern.
"There you will learn what fear is, if you can learn it any place in
this world.
"Have you never seen anything that made you shiver from head to foot and
made your heart beat fast?"
"I never have," calmly answered Siegfried. "Take me quickly, Mimi. I am
ready to learn."