VALGERD. Warm your knees by the hearth. I shall go—and defy wind and storm.
ORM. [Taking her hounds]. Woman, woman—after all, you are a woman!
VALGERD [Angry]. Let go my hand.
ORM. Now the Erl is saved!
VALGERD. Saved?
ORM. Yes, you have been given back to him—and that is his voice now. [Goes.]
[Voices of Thorfinn and Orm are heard outside, Thorfinn laughing loudly.]
VALGERD. The Erl comes—he laughs—that I have never heard before—oh, there is something terrible approaching! [Wrings her hands.]
[Enter Thorfinn and Orm.]
THORFINN [Laughing]. That was a murderous sight—