Nils Lykke.

Yet ’tis strange you should seek her here if you have so little hope.

Nils Stensson.

What mean you?—Tell me, know you Lady Inger?

Nils Lykke.

Surely; since I am her guest——

Nils Stensson.

Ay, but it in nowise follows that you know her. I too am her guest, yet have I never seen so much as her shadow.

Nils Lykke.

Yet did you speak of her——