Nils Lykke.

Death and destruction!

Lady Inger.

It boots not to resist. You come not from this place. So rest you quiet; ’tis your wisest course.

Nils Lykke.

[To himself.] Ah,—I am overreached. She has been craftier than I. [A thought strikes him.] But if I yet——?

Lady Inger.

[To Olaf Skaktavl.] Ride with Count Sture’s troops to the frontier; then without pause to Peter Kanzler, and bring me back my child. Now has he no longer any plea for keeping from me what is my own.

[Adds, as Olaf Skaktavl is going:

Wait; a token—. He that wears Sten Sture’s ring, he is my son.