(BIORN enters hurriedly from the right, carrying a light.)
ELINA (goes towards him). What is amiss, Biorn? What is it?
BIORN. An ambuscade! Count Sture——
ELINA. Count Sture? What of him?
NILS LYKKE. Have they killed him?
BIORN (to ELINA). Where is your mother?
TWO HOUSE-SERVANTS (rushing in from the right). Lady Inger!
Lady Inger!
(LADY INGER GYLDENLOVE enters by the first door on the left, with a branch-candlestick, lighted, in her hand, and says quickly:)
LADY INGER. I know all. Down with you to the courtyard! Keep
the gate open for our friends, but closed against all others!
(Puts down the candlestick on the table to the left. BIORN
and the two House-Servants go out again to the right.)