Pooh; this evening I’ll be there!

Åse.

Fie now! Would you crown our miseries

With a load of all men’s scorn?

Peer.

Never fear; ’twill all go well.

[Shouting and laughing at the same time.

Mother, jump! We’ll spare the waggon;

’Twould take time to fetch the mare up——

[Lifts her up in his arms.