[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.