Nils Stensson.

Nay, what I would have said is this: I have long been eager to see Lady Inger Gyldenlöve, whose fame has spread so wide. She must be a queenly woman,—is’t not so?——The one thing I like not in her, is that she is so cursedly slow to take open action.

Nils Lykke.

Open action?

Nils Stensson.

Ay, ay, you understand me; I mean she is so loath to take a hand in driving the foreign masters out of the land.

Nils Lykke.

Ay, there you are right. But if now you do what you can, you will doubtless move her.

Nils Stensson.

I? God knows ’twould but little serve if I——