[Softly.] Let us try if it could not be so.
Rita.
[Almost inaudibly.] Yes, let us, Alfred.
[Both are silent. Then Allmers goes up to the flagstaff and hoists the flag to the top. Rita stands beside the summer-house and looks at him in silence.
Allmers.
[Coming forward again.] We have a heavy day of work before us, Rita.
Rita.
You will see—that now and then a Sabbath peace will descend on us.
Allmers.
[Quietly, with emotion.] Then, perhaps, we shall know that the spirits are with us.