The secret that we share alone with one.

’Twas good of you to listen: now enfold it

Deep in your heart,—warm, glowing, as I told it.

[He goes out in the background to the others. Falk looks after him a moment, and paces up and down in the garden, visibly striving to master his agitation. Presently Svanhild comes out with a shawl on her arm, and is going towards the back. Falk approaches and gazes at her fixedly. Svanhild stops.

Svanhild [after a short pause].

You gaze so at me!

Falk [half to himself].

Yes, ’tis there—the same;

The shadow in her eyes’ deep mirror sleeping,

The roguish elf about her lips a-peeping,