OLAVUS. No, but what you have not been you frequently become. [Pause.
ISRAEL. Won't those people in there try to get away?
OLAVUS. That, too, has been foreseen, just as their desire to discuss the matter had been reckoned with. Do you know what they are talking of?
ISRAEL. No, I have not the slightest idea.
OLAVUS. They still imagine that King Christian is free, and they are planning to seek help from him.
ISRAEL. What a senseless thought!
OLAVUS. Especially as Christian is a prisoner.
ISRAEL. It sounds like madness, but when you hear how devoted these good men of the mining districts are to their King, it cannot surprise you that they may have in mind the oath binding them to their only lawful sovereign....
OLAVUS. Now, with your pardon, I am surprised....
ISRAEL. Oh, mercy, I am merely putting myself in their place.