Guldstad.

Why, you see, you are a letter’d man;

How monstrous were it if your skill’d design

Were ruined by a bungler’s hand like mine!

[Retires to the background.

Falk [in passing, to Lind].

Yes, you were right; the merchant’s really scheming

The ruin of your new-won happiness.

Lind [aside to Anna].

Now then you see, my doubting was not dreaming;