Sveinungi. What has come over you? Do you mean to go right against the will of your parents? I can tell you one thing, if it is this tramp you are thinking of, it shall never come to pass. Not as long as I live. Goes in.
Jorunn. Your father was angry. What were you talking about?
Ljot. He wants me to marry a man I don't know.
Jorunn. Does he? You cannot say of Halfdan that he is a man you don't know.
Ljot. We have never spoken a word to each other.
Jorunn. Yet he has been here several times. Once he stayed overnight. Besides you have heard him spoken of, and you know his people. Everybody knows the Hofstad people.
Ljot. Father has given his word without asking me. He had no right to do that.
Jorunn. You have worked yourself up, Ljot. I don't understand you. Can it really be that you have promised yourself to some one without letting your parents know it?
Ljot. I have not.
Jorunn. You need not hide anything from me. If you have given your word, you must keep it.