A Crowd of People. Lundestad, with a committee-badge at his button-hole, stands on the rostrum. Ringdal, also with a committee-badge, at the table on the left.
Lundestad.
... Therefore, friends and fellow citizens, I drink to our freedom! As we have inherited it from our fathers, so will we preserve it for ourselves and for our children! Three cheers for the day! Three cheers for the Seventeenth of May!
The Crowd.
Hurrah! hurrah! hurrah!
Ringdal.
[As Lundestad descends from the rostrum.] And one cheer more for old Lundestad!
Some of the Crowd.
[Hissing.] Ss! Ss!
Many Voices.