And sent the “Clerical Gazette” a shilling.

[Pause. Falk is about to retort, but checks himself, and goes into the garden.

Svanhild.

[After watching him a moment, approaches him and asks gently:

Falk, are you angry?

Falk.

No, I only brood,—

Svanhild [with thoughtful sympathy].

You seem to be two natures, still at feud,—

Unreconciled—