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?