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LADY INGER OF ÖSTRAT.
[ACT IV.

Nils Lykke.

What, lady?

Lady Inger.

——First of all his errand—and then all that had gone before it.

Nils Lykke.

[To Olaf Skaktavl, as he takes out the packet and hands it to him.] The papers from Peter Kanzler. You will find in them a full account of our partizans in Sweden.

Olaf Skaktavl.

It is well.

[Sits down by the table on the left, where he opens the packet and examines its contents.

Nils Lykke.

And now, Lady Inger Gyldenlöve,—I know not that there is aught else for me to do here.

Lady Inger.

Had it been things of state alone that brought us together, you might be right. But I should be loath to think so.

Nils Lykke.

You would say——?

Lady Inger.

I would say that 'twas not alone as a Danish Councillor or as the ally of Peter Kanzler that