SIGNE.
[Flinging her arms round MARGIT's neck.] Dear sister!
GUDMUND.
Margit, I thank you. And now farewell. [Listening.] Hush!
I hear the tramp of hoofs in the court-yard.
SIGNE.
[Apprehensively.] Strangers have arrived.
[A HOUSE-CARL appears in the doorway at the back.
HOUSE-CARL.
The King's men are without. They seek Gudmund Alfson.