JUDITH. What? You are going—away?
ALLAN. I am transferred to Norrland.
JUDITH. [Dumfounded] To Norrland? When are you going?
ALLAN. To-day.
JUDITH. Whose doing is this?
ALLAN. Your father's.
JUDITH. That's what I thought! [Walks up and down the floor, stamping her feet] I wish you had stayed over to-day.
ALLAN. In order to meet the Colonel?
JUDITH. What do you know about the Colonel?—Is it certain that you are going?
ALLAN. There is no other choice. And now I want it myself. [Silence.