Margit.

[Screams.] O God, have mercy! Help! Help! They will die.

Gudmund.

[Setting down the goblet.] Margit—!

Signë.

What ails you, sister?

Margit.

[Towards the back.] Help, help! Will no one help?

[A House-Carl rushes in from the passage-way.

House-Carl.