Ladies, attend!
[Takes Anna’s arm.
Now listen; then repeat
For his instruction what he has to do.
[They go into the background and out to the right in eager talk with several of the ladies; the other guests disperse in groups about the garden. Falk stops Strawman, whose wife and children keep close to him. Guldstad goes to and fro during the following conversation.
Falk.
Come, pastor, help young fervour in its fight,
Before they lure Miss Anna from her vows.
Strawman [in clerical cadence].
The wife must be submissive to the spouse;—