[At the window.] Many men rush in at the gateway.
Nils Stensson.
And to lose my life now! Now, when my true life was but beginning! Now, when I have so lately learnt that I have aught to live for. No, no, no!—Think not I am a coward, Inger Gyldenlöve! Might I but have time to show——
Lady Inger.
I hear them now in the hall below.
[Firmly to Olaf Skaktavl.
He must be saved—cost what it will!
Nils Stensson.
[Seizes her hand.] Oh, I knew it;—you are noble and good!
Olaf Skaktavl.