[Searchingly, after a short pause.] There is one possible chance that might endanger Gustav Vasa’s throne——
Lady Inger.
[To herself.] Whither is he tending?
Nils Lykke.
——the chance, namely, that there should exist in Sweden a man entitled by his birth to claim election to the kingship.
Lady Inger.
[Evasively.] The Swedish nobles have been even as bloodily hewn down as our own, Sir Councillor. Where would you seek for——?
Nils Lykke.
[With a smile.] Seek? The man is found already——
Lady Inger.