Armgart [coming forward].
The Vogt not come!
Stüssi.Did you want aught with him?
Armgart. Ah! yes, indeed!
Stüssi.Why have you placed yourself
In this strait pass to meet him?
Armgart.In the pass
He cannot turn aside from me, must hear me.
Friesshardt [comes hastily down the Pass, and calls into the Scene].
Make way! make way! My lord the Landvogt
Is riding close at hand.
Armgart.The Landvogt coming!
[She goes with her children to the front of the Scene. Gessler and Rudolph der Harras appear on horseback at the top of the Pass.
Stüssi [to Friesshardt].
How got you through the water, when the flood
Had carried down the bridges?
Friess.We have battled
With the billows, friend; we heed no Alp-flood.