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SOLVEIG
- Wait; I will help you; the burden we'll share.
PEER
- No, stay where you are! I must bear it alone.
SOLVEIG
- But don't go too far, dear!
PEER
- Be patient, my girl;
- be my way long or short-you must wait.
SOLVEIG [nodding to him as he goes].
- Yes, I'll Wait!
[PEER GYNT goes down the wood-path. SOLVEIG remains standing in the open half-door.]
SCENE FOURTH
[ASE's room. Evening. The room is lighted by a wood fire on the open hearth. A cat is lying on a chair at the foot of the bed.] [ASE lies in the bed, fumbling about restlessly with her hands on the coverlet.] ASE
- Oh, Lord my God, isn't he coming?
- The time drags so drearily on.
- I have no one to send with a message;
- and I've much, oh so much, to say.
- I haven't a moment to lose now!
- So quickly! Who could have foreseen
