Nay, that is our firm resolve.
Knut.
[To Margit.] Have no fear.
Bengt.
And what we have firmly resolved stands fast.
Knut.
That I like well, Sir Bengt Gauteson. I, too, say the same; and I have pledged myself at the feast-board to wed your kinswoman. You may be sure that my pledge, too, will stand fast.—God’s peace till to-night!
[He and Erik, with their men, go out at the back.
[Bengt accompanies them to the door. The sound of the bells has in the meantime ceased.
Bengt.