JULIA. But think only-think if they should look for you in there!
JEAN. I shall bolt the door. And if they try to break it I open,
I'll shoot!—Come! [Kneeling before her] Come!
JULIA. [Meaningly] And you promise me—?
JEAN. I swear!
[MISS JULIA goes quickly out to the right. JEAN follows her eagerly.]
***
BALLET
The peasants enter. They are decked out in their best and carry flowers in their hats. A fiddler leads them. On the table they place a barrel of small-beer and a keg of "brännvin," or white Swedish whiskey, both of them decorated with wreathes woven out of leaves. First they drink. Then they form in ring and sing and dance to the melody heard before:
"Through the fields come two ladies a-walking."
The dance finished, they leave singing.