[Painting.] It’s the inner part of the fiord, among the islands, that I am working at.

Lyngstrand.

Yes, I see.

Ballested.

But I haven’t put in the figure yet. There is no such thing as a model to be had in the town.

Lyngstrand.

There is to be a figure, is there?

Ballested.

Yes. By the rock in the foreground here, I mean to have a half-dead mermaid lying.

Lyngstrand.