[About to shut the window, looks out.] Why, isn’t that the Pastor over there?

Rebecca.

[Hastily.] Where? [Rises.] Yes, it is he. [Behind the curtain.] Stand aside—don’t let him see us.

Madam Helseth.

[Keeping back from the window.] Only think, Miss—he’s beginning to take the path by the mill again.

Rebecca.

He went that way the day before yesterday too. [Peeps out between the curtains and the window-frame.] But let us see whether——

Madam Helseth[Helseth].

Will he venture across the foot-bridge?

Rebecca.