Aels, a rich and tempermental woman from the North, moves to Hamburg. She lives in a mansoin besides the newly married couple, Alrecht and Octavia. The friendship between Aels and Albrecht does not disturb the harmony of this marriage. But soon, Aels has a reoccurrence of a tropical disease, and because she is confined to bed, Albrecht rides by each day on his horse to her window and inquires as to her health. When, eventually, he gets sick with an epidemic, his wife takes over this dear service and greets Aels in her riding clothes, pretending to be Albrecht and comforting the sick woman, so as to not worry her about Albrecht also being sick. Aels, however, is not completely fooled and ends up dying of a broken heart. It turns out, she cannot live without Albrecht's love -something Albrecht only finds about from her last letter to him before her death. 译文(2): 艾尔斯，一个来自北方的富有而喜怒无常的女人，搬到了汉堡。她住在新婚夫妇阿尔雷希特和奥克塔维亚旁边的一座宅邸里。埃尔斯和阿尔布雷希特之间的友谊并没有破坏这段婚姻的和谐。但是很快，艾尔斯又得了一种热带病，因为她卧病在床，阿尔布雷希特每天都骑着马经过她的窗前，询问她的健康状况。最终，他得了传染病，他的妻子接管了这个亲爱的服务，穿着骑马服迎接埃尔斯，假装是阿尔布雷希特，安慰生病的女人，这样她就不用担心阿尔布雷希特也生病了。然而，艾尔斯并没有完全被愚弄，最终死于一颗破碎的心。事实证明，她离不开阿尔布雷希特的爱——这是阿尔布雷希特在她去世前写给他的最后一封信中才发现的。