Yes, all in black. Do you think I should look nice?

Lyngstrand.

Black is scarcely the thing for the summer-time. But for that matter I am sure you would look extremely well in black too. Yes, you have just the figure for it.

Hilda.

[Gazing before her.] In black right up to the neck—a black ruffle—black gloves and a long black veil behind.

Lyngstrand.

If you were dressed like that, Miss Hilda, I should long to be a painter—so that I might paint a young, lovely, broken-hearted widow.

Hilda.

Or a young girl mourning for her betrothed.

Lyngstrand.