I demand first that you shall call the people of the northern districts to arms, in support of the disaffected in Sweden.

Lady Inger.

And next——?

Nils Lykke.

——that you do your best to advance young Count Sture’s ancestral claim to the throne of Sweden.

Lady Inger.

His? You demand that I——

Olaf Skaktavl.

[Softly.] It is the wish of many Swedes, and ’twould serve our turn too.

Nils Lykke.