You saw your mother.
Elina.
[Half to herself.] Night after night I have heard her steps in there. I have heard her whispering and moaning like a soul in pain. And what says the song—? Ah, now I know! Now I know that——
Biörn.
Hush!
[Lady Inger Gyldenlöve enters rapidly from the hall, without noticing the others; she goes to the window, draws the curtain, and gazes out as if watching for some one on the high road; after a while, she turns and goes slowly back into the hall.
Elina.
[Softly, following her with her eyes.] White, white as the dead——!
[An uproar of many voices is heard outside the door on the right.
Biörn.