Hilda.

In order to keep hold of you.

Ragnar.

Has he told you so?

Hilda.

No, but it is so. It must be so! [Wildly.] I will—I will have it so!

Ragnar.

And at the very moment when you came—he let her go.

Hilda.

It was you—you that he let go! What do you suppose he cares about strange women like her?