STRANGER. Your own self. But when you have looked at that you must die.
MRS. WALSTRÖM. [Covers her eyes with her hands; after a pause she says] Do you want to help me?
STRANGER. If I can.
MRS. WALSTRÖM. Try.
STRANGER. Wait a moment!—No, I cannot. He is innocently accused. Only you can set him free again. But that you cannot do. It's a net that has not been tied by men——
MRS. WALSTRÖM. But he is not guilty.
STRANGER. Who is guilty? [Pause.
MRS. WALSTRÖM. No one! It was an accident!
STRANGER. I know it.
MRS. WALSTRÖM. What am I to do?