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.