[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.