OLAF. [With a cry and as if suddenly awakening.]

Ingeborg!—With that have you shattered my life!
My happiness then was not what it seemed!
Alas, that you had to inform me of this!

OLAF. [In despair.]

Dear mother! a beautiful dream I have dreamed;
You waken me now,—there's an end to my bliss!


SCENE XIII

[The Preceding. ARNE, INGEBORG, HEMMING, WEDDING GUESTS, and LADY KIRSTEN from the left.]

ARNE. Good luck, Lady Kirsten, to you! You have found him again, I am told.

LADY KIRSTEN. Of course I have found him.—And now for home!