Asta.

[Sighing.] Poor Rita! And poor Alfred!

Borgheim.

[Busied with the flag.] Have you the heart to leave them? I ask, because I see you are in travelling-dress.

Asta.

[In a low voice.] I must go.

Borgheim.

Well, if you must, then——

Asta.

And you are going, too, to-night?