Hilde (whispering to LYNGSTRAND). They're hunting in couples, too!
(HILDE and LYNGSTRAND go out through the garden. Music is heard in the distance out at the fiord during the following.)
Ellida. Come! He is here! Yes, yes—I feel it.
Wangel. You'd better go in, Ellida. Let me talk with him alone.
Ellida. Oh! that's impossible—impossible, I say. (With a cry.) Ah! do you see him, Wangel?
(The STRANGER enters from the left, and remains on the pathway outside the fence.)
The Stranger (bowing). Good-evening. You see I am here again, Ellida.
Ellida. Yes, yes. The time has come now.
The Stranger. And are you ready to start, or not?
Wangel. You can see for yourself that she is not.