(LADY INGER GYLDENLOVE enters from the hall along with
OLAF SKAKTAVL.)
LADY INGER (to NILS LYKKE). Here is the man you seek.
NILS LYKKE (aside). In the name of hell—what means this?
LADY INGER. I have told this knight your name and all that you have imparted to me——
NILS LYKKE (irresolutely). Ay? Have you so? Well——
LADY INGER—— And I will not hide from you that his faith in your help is none of the strongest.
NILS LYKKE. Is it not?
LADY INGER. Can you marvel at that? You know, surely, both the cause he fights for and his bitter fate——
NILS LYKKE. This man's——? Ah—yes, truly——
OLAF SKAKTAVL (to NILS LYKKE). But seeing 'tis Peter Kanzler
himself that has appointed us this meeting——