[Caresses her with emotion.

Lind [seizing Falk’s hand].

My friend, I walk in rapt intoxication!

Falk.

Hold! As a plighted man you are a member

Of Rapture’s Temperance-association.

Observe its rules;—no orgies here, remember!

[Turning to Guldstad sympathetically.

Well, my good sir!

Guldstad [beaming with pleasure].