Ballested.

[Pointing upward with his stick.] Sehen Sie, meine Herrschaften—over dort liegt eine andere height. Das willen wir besteigen too, un herunter——

[He continues in English, and leads the party out to the right.

Hilda comes quickly up the slope on the right, stops, and looks backward. Presently Boletta comes up the same way.

Boletta.

My dear Hilda, why should we run away from Lyngstrand?

Hilda.

Because I can’t endure to walk up hill so slowly. Look—look at him crawling up.

Boletta.

Oh, you know how ill he is.