[She moves away a few steps; HEMMING rises.]
HEMMING. Alas, Lady Ingeborg! Once you were so kind to me; but now since you have become a real grown-up lady—and especially, I imagine, since you gave your betrothal vow—
INGEBORG. What then?
HEMMING. O nothing!—
[A pause.]
HEMMING. Can you remember,—we have been up here once before?
INGEBORG. [Curtly.] I don't remember!
HEMMING. You had run after your spotted goat, and I followed you, as was always my custom,—yes, that was a long time ago, but I remember it as if it happened today; right down there lies the swamp, which—
INGEBORG. [Comes nearer.] Was it the time we heard the bear?
HEMMING. Yes, the very time.