Are you back already?

Hedvig.

Yes, I didn’t care to go any farther. It was a good thing, too; for I've just met some one at the door.

Hialmar.

It must have been that Mrs. Sörby.

Hedvig.

Yes.

Hialmar.

[Walks up and down.] I hope you have seen her for the last time.

[Silence. Hedvig, discouraged, looks first at one and then at the other, trying to divine their frame of mind.