Peer.

[To himself.]

Mocking looks; needle-keen whispers[[36]] and smiles.

They grate like a sawblade under the file!

[He slinks along close to the fence. Solveig, leading little Helga by the hand, comes into the yard, along with her Parents.

A Man.

[To another, close to Peer Gynt.]

Look, here are the new folk.

The Other.

The ones from the west?