Tjaelde. And to think that such help should come to me now!
Valborg. Yes, now we are all going to our posts—and all together, where formerly you stood alone! You will have good fairies round you; wherever you look, you will see happy faces and busy fingers all day long; and we shall all enjoy our meals and our evenings together, just as we did when we were children!
Tjaelde. That, above everything!
Valborg. Ha, ha!—it is after the rain that the birds sing blithest, you know! And this time our happiness can never miscarry, because we shall have something worth living for!
Tjaelde. Let us go to your mother! This will cheer her heart!
Valborg. Ah, how I have learnt to love her! What has happened to-day has taught me.
Tjaelde. It is for her that we shall all work now.
Valborg. Yes—for her, for her. She shall rest now. Let us go to her!
Tjaelde. Kiss me first, my dear. (His voice trembles.) It is so long since you did!
Valborg (kissing him). Father!