What can this be?

Elina.

Go out and see what is amiss.

[Einar Huk, the bailiff, appears in the anteroom, with a crowd of Retainers and Peasants.

Einar Huk.

[In the doorway.] Straight in to her! And be not abashed!

Biörn.

What seek you?

Einar Huk.

Lady Inger herself.