Arnholm and Boletta enter from the left along the footpath outside the garden fence.

Boletta.

[To those in the garden.] Come and look! The English steamer is going up the fiord.

[A large steamer glides slowly past at some distance.

Lyngstrand.

[To Hilda, near the garden fence.] I am sure he will come down upon her to-night.

Hilda.

[Nods.] Upon his faithless wife—yes.

Lyngstrand.

Fancy,—just at midnight.