PEHR. No, no, for God's sake, wait a little—
DEATH. You're a timid beggar! Live on then if you think it anything; but don't regret it later. I shall not come again for a long time. [Starts to go.]
PEHR. No, no, no! don't leave me alone—
DEATH. Alone? Why, you have lovely Nature!
PEHR. Yes, it's all very well when the weather is fine and the sun shines, but thus late—
DEATH. You see now that you cannot live without your fellow men. Knock three times on the door over yonder, and you will find company. [Death vanishes. Pehr knocks three times on door of hut; the Wise Man comes out.]
WISE MAN. Whom seek you?
PEHR. A human being! In short—I'm unhappy.
WISE MAN. Then you should not seek human beings, for they cannot help you.
PEHR. I know it, yet I would neither live nor die; I have suffered all, and my heart will not break!