[Goes to the fence.] You can see her best from here.

Lyngstrand.

The last trip of the season.

Ballested.

“Soon will all the straits be ice-bound,” as the poet says. It is sad, Mrs. Wangel! And I hear we are to lose you too for a time: you go out to Skioldvik to-morrow, I am told.

Wangel.

No—that plan has come to nothing; this evening we two have changed our minds.

Arnholm.

[Looking from one to the other.] Ah,—really!

Boletta.