How fair! Did ever you see the like!

Looked down at her shoes and her snow-white apron—!

And then she held on to her mother’s skirt-folds,

And carried a psalm-book wrapped up in a kerchief—!

I must look at that girl.

[Going into the house.

A Lad.

[Coming out of the house, with several others.]

Are you off so soon, Peer,

From the dance?