Peer Gynt has perched his

Mother on the mill-house roof!

SCENE SECOND.

A hillock, covered with bushes and heather. The highroad runs behind it; a fence between.

Peer Gynt comes along a footpath, goes quickly up to the fence, stops, and looks out over the distant prospect.

Peer.

Yonder lies Hegstad. Soon I’ll have reached it.

[Puts one leg over the fence; then hesitates.

Wonder if Ingrid’s alone in the house now?

[Shades his eyes with his hand, and looks out.