Hialmar.

Yes, I have just come.

Ekdal.

You didn’t see me, did you?

Hialmar.

No; but they told me you had passed through—so I thought I would follow you.

Ekdal.

H'm, good of you, Hialmar.—Who were they, all those fellows?

Hialmar.

Oh, all sorts of people. There was Chamberlain Flor, and Chamberlain Balle, and Chamberlain Kaspersen, and Chamberlain—this, that, and the other—I don’t know who all——