Intrusively to risk one’s skin

Without an adequate occasion.—

I do my duty with precision,—

But always in my own Division.

[Goes.


[Outside the hut on the Ness. Late afternoon. The fjord is smooth and gleaming. Agnes is sitting by the beach. Presently Brand comes out of the hut.]

Brand.

That was death. The horror-rifted

Bosom at its touch grew whole.