Lydia is the knight's elder daughter. Lovely, remote, and proper, and she knows that a poor wanderer like Goldmund could never be her husband, but she eventually gives into his wooing and develops loving feelings toward him. She allows him to caress and kiss her, and she even begins coming to his bed at night, but her sense of honor will not allow him to make love to her, because she must save herself for whomever her husband eventually will be. After Goldmund is banished by the knight, Lydia sends a courier after him to give him meat, a warm vest, and a gold coin, but she includes no note to provide him with any hint that he should return to her.
