[More softly.] You think the Chamberlain is afraid of him?

Lundestad.

I think he is prudent—that’s what I think.

[They go up to the back conversing, and so out into the garden. At the same time Selma and Stensgård enter by the foremost door on the right.

Selma.

Yes, just look—over the tops of the trees you can see the church tower and all the upper part of the town.

Stensgård.

So you can; I shouldn’t have thought so.

Selma.

Don’t you think it’s a beautiful view?