ACT III.]
LADY INGER OF ÖSTRAT.
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Nils Stensson.
Ay, what the devil was I to do? The gate was shut. Folk must sleep in this house like bears at Yuletide.
Nils Lykke.
God be thanked! Know you not that a good conscience is the best pillow?
Nils Stensson.
Ay, it must be even so; for with all my rattling and thundering, I
Nils Lykke.
You won not in?
Nils Stensson.
You have hit it. So I said to myself: As you are bidden to be in Östråt to-night, if you have to go through fire and water, you may surely make free to creep through a window.
Nils Lykke.
[Aside.] Ah, if it should be!
[Moves a step or two nearer.
Was it, then, of the last necessity that you should reach Östråt to-night?
Nils Stensson.
Was it? Ay, faith but it was. I love not to keep folk waiting, I can tell you.
