[Entering.]
What? Peer! Ah, then we are over
The worse of the sorrow and need!
Dear Lord, but she’s sleeping soundly—
Or can she be——?
Peer.
Hush; she is dead.
[Kari weeps besides the body; Peer Gynt walks up and down the room for some time; at last he stops beside the bed.
Peer.
See mother buried with honour.