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ACT III.]
LADY INGER OF ÖSTRAT.
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Nils Lykke.

Ay, there you are right. But if now you do what you can, you will doubtless move her.

Nils Stensson.

I? God knows 'twould but little serve if I——

Nils Lykke.

Yet 'tis strange you should seek her here if you have so little hope.

Nils Stensson.

What mean you?—Tell me, know you Lady Inger?

Nils Lykke.

Surely; since I am her guest——

Nils Stensson.

Ay, but it in nowise follows that you know her. I too am her guest, yet have I never seen so much as her shadow.

Nils Lykke.

Yet did you speak of her——

Nils Stensson.

——as all folk speak. Why should I not? And besides, I have often enough heard from Peter Kanzler——

[Stops in confusion, and falls to eating busily.