Mrs. Evje. Let us all go to him.
Evje and Gertrud. Yes.
Mrs. Evje (to INGEBORG). Bring in our cloaks and hats again, and afterwards clear the table. (INGEBORG does so.)
Harald (unable to control his emotion). Haakon, this is my future wife. (Goes away from them.)
Haakon. Well, my dear, your engagement has begun seriously; take all the future seriously, too.
The Doctor. You need not say that to her. What she needs is to take life more lightly.
Haakon. Oh, yes—if she lays everything in God's hands she can always take life lightly.
Mrs. Evje. It is our own fault, I expect, when we take it too lightly.
Evje. But sometimes we learn a lesson by that.
Haakon. Oh, yes. Well, we must stand by one another, we who take life in the same way.