Nils Stensson.

Ay, it must be even so; for with all my rattling and thundering, I——

Nils Lykke.

——You won not in?

Nils Stensson.

You have hit it. So I said to myself: As you are bidden to be in Östråt to-night, if you have to go through fire and water, you may surely make free to creep through a window.

Nils Lykke.

[Aside.] Ah, if it should be——!

[Moves a step or two nearer.

Was it, then, of the last necessity that you should reach Östråt to-night?