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rah! Such a witness doesn't grow on the trees! THE OLD MAN
- My Lord Prince, too, has grizzled a bit since we met.
PEER
- My dear father-in-law, the years gnaw and wear one.-
- Well well, a truce to all private affairs,-
- and pray, above all things, no family jars.
- I was then a sad madcap-
THE OLD MAN
- Oh yes; oh yes;-
- His Highness was young; and what won't one do then?
- But his Highness was wise in rejecting his bride;
- he saved himself thereby both worry and shame;
- for since then she's utterly gone to the bad-
PEER
- Indeed!
THE OLD MAN
- She has led a deplorable life;
- and, just think,-she and Trond are now living together.
PEER
- Which Trond?
THE OLD MAN
- Of the Valfjeld.
PEER
- It's he? Aha;
- it was he I cut out with the saeter-girls.
THE OLD M
