Hovstad.
[Offering her an arm-chair.] Won’t you sit down?
Petra.
No, thanks; I must go again directly.
Hovstad.
Perhaps you bring a message from your father——?
Petra.
No, I have come on my own account. [Takes a book from the pocket of her cloak.] Here is that English story.
Hovstad.
Why have you brought it back?