[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.