What I said just now.

Hilda.

[Looks at him witheringly from top to toe.] I don’t in the least understand you.

Lyngstrand.

No, no. Well, I must bid you good-bye for the present, ladies.

Boletta.

[Comes forward to the steps.] Good-bye, good-bye, Mr. Lyngstrand. You must please excuse us for to-day.—But another time, when you have nothing better to do—and when you feel inclined,—I hope you’ll look in and see father and—and the rest of us.

Lyngstrand.

Many thanks. I shall be only too delighted.

[He bows and goes out by the garden gate. As he passes along the road outside, to the left, he bows again towards the verandah.