Johan.

Martha—if I could say to you——Well, at all events let me thank you for your faithful friendship.

Martha.

[Smiling sadly.] Ah——! Well, now we have made a clean breast of things, Johan. Hush, here comes some one. Good-bye; I don’t want them to——

[She goes out through the second door on the left. Lona Hessel comes from the garden, followed by Mrs. Bernick.

Mrs. Bernick.

[Still in the garden.] Good heavens, Lona, what can you be thinking of?

Lona.

Let me alone, I tell you; I must and will talk to him.

Mrs. Bernick.