OLAVUS. There you spoke a true word, Master Stig, but....
A rap on the door is heard. MASTER OLAVUS opens. The same MESSENGER appears, whispers to him, and leaves again.
OLAVUS. The King requests Nils Söderby to meet him at Saint Jorghen's Gildhall.
NILS. Won't Inghel Hansson come back first?
OLAVUS. I don't know.
NILS. Well, nobody is afraid here, and....
OLAVUS. What have you to be afraid of?
NILS. Nothing! [To his friends] The big bell at Mora has not been taken out of Siljan valley yet, Anders Persson and Mons Nilsson. That's a devil of a bell, and when it begins to tinkle, they can hear it way over in Norway, and fourteen thousand men stand like one!
OLAVUS. I don't understand what you mean.
NILS. [Shaking hands with ANDERS and MONS] But you two understand! God bless you and defend you!