Hilda.

Oh, you should just have seen him high, high up—at the dizzy height where I once saw him.

Ragnar.

Did you see that?

Hilda.

Yes, indeed I did. How free and great he looked as he stood and fastened the wreath to the church vane!

Ragnar.

I know that he ventured that, once in his life—one solitary time. It is a legend among us younger men. But no power on earth would induce him to do it again.

Hilda.

To-day he will do it again!