Ellida.

The girls tell me you hope to manage it.

Lyngstrand.

Yes; you see I have a patron in Bergen who provides for me; and he has promised to let me go next year.

Ellida.

How did you come across him?

Lyngstrand.

Oh, it was a great stroke of luck. I once went a voyage in one of his ships.

Ellida.

Did you? Then at that time you wanted to be a sailor?