I am led to believe that in this land, a man is imprisoned for slaying another no matter how just the cause - and certainly retribution for dishonor laid against one's kin ought to be cause enough. Even so, it cannot be that all the young man of this country are such menaces to all courtesy. If there is one who shall pay Sieglinde fair treatment and follow all proper customs, then I cannot object to their desire to court her.

[Except he has little idea what those "proper customs" might be in these foreign circumstances.]

Moreover, if she is not yet of a marriageable age, then for what reason is the thirteenth year cause for special remark?