Nils Stensson.
Nay—begin you now on that again? Have I not made free confession——
Nils Lykke.
You mistake me. What you said in the Dales was the truth.
Nils Stensson.
The truth? What mean you by that? Tell me but——!
Nils Lykke.
First your oath! The holiest, the most inviolable you can swear.
Nils Stensson.
That you shall have. Yonder on the wall hangs the picture of the Holy Virgin——