[With painful emotion.] Oh, yes, perhaps, my little boy.

Eyolf.

It would be so splendid, you know, if I could climb the mountains, like you.

Asta.

[Changing the subject.] Why, how beautifully you are dressed to-day, Eyolf!

Eyolf.

Yes, don’t you think so, Auntie?

Asta.

Yes, indeed. Is it in honour of Papa that you have got your new clothes on?

Eyolf.