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ere;
- I could nor laugh nor weep from the depths of my heart.
- I knew not for sure how you might be minded;
- I knew but for sure what I should do and must do.
PEER
- But your father?
SOLVEIG
- In all of God's wide earth
- I have none I can call either father or mother.
- I have loosed me from all of them.
PEER
- Solveig, you fair one-
- and to come to me?
SOLVEIG
- Ay, to you alone;
- you must be all to me, friend and consoler.
- [In tears.]
- The worst was leaving my little sister;-
- but parting from father was worse, still worse;
- and worst to leave her at whose breast I was borne;-
- oh no, God forgive me, the worst I must call
- the sorrow of leaving them all, ay all!
PEER
- And you know the doom that was passed in spring?
- It forfeits my farm and my heritage.
SOLVEIG
- Think you for heritage, goods, and gear,
- I forsook the paths all my dear ones tread?
