Boletta.

Yes; it is he that is coming.

Ballested.

Ah, indeed. So he is in these parts again?

Boletta.

That is why we want the flag run up.

Ballested.

Ah, I see, I see.

[Boletta goes into the garden-room again.

Shortly afterwards, Lyngstrand comes along the road from the right, and stops, interested by the sight of the easel and painter’s materials. He is a slightly-built young man, of delicate appearance, poorly but neatly dressed.