[Exit, the FORESTER after him.]
SCENE VII
Enter SOPHY; then the FORESTER and WILLIAM.
SOPHY (coming out of MARY'S room).
Now she may be where the willows begin.
[At the window.]
He is closing the shutters. I must close Mary's for appearance's sake, so that she can climb in when she returns. And Andrew not yet back! All at once a feeling comes over me, as if I should not have allowed Mary to go.
Enter the FORESTER with WILLIAM. SOPHY goes again into MARY'S room.
WILLIAM (while entering).
Father, Lora Kramer came to the fence, and said that Stein was beside himself—that shots had been heard in the forest—that Robert was missing, and that Stein had sent Möller into town; he was to get the soldiers; they were to arrest the whole band of murderers from the hunter's house, he said. She also said that Möller had passed Kramer's house at full gallop. They might be expected to arrive before one o'clock.