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I will!
_Kari._
Will you take upon yourself half of my guilt and become an outcast like me?
_Halla (exultantly)._
I will!
_Kari._
Will you face hunger and cold and all terrors for my sake?
_Halla._
Have you not always known that I would go with you? Could you believe me so low that I would keep you here with this dread hanging over you, if I had not meant to go with you? Every night I thought: To-morrow he will ask if you will go with him.
_Kari._
How beautiful you are! All the days we have had together live in your face!
_Halla._
Did you believe I could rest satisfied in thinking of you with the mountains between us? Then you don't know me yet. I will live! I will sail with you in your white s.h.i.+ps!
_Enter Bjrn._
_Bjrn._
Good day to you, Halla. I looked for you at the fold. It is a long time since we two neighbors have met.
_Halla (confused)._
Yes, it is a long time.
_Bjrn._
Who sees to it that your sheep are taken out of the fold? Your cots seem to be standing empty.
_Halla._
Kari attends to that.
_Bjrn._
Then it is time you sent him about his work.
_Kari._
Perhaps the bailiff has come to lend a hand?
_Bjrn (to Halla)._
I should like to have a few words with you.
_Halla._
We were just starting for the fold. Perhaps we could have our talk on the way up.
_Bjrn._
If it is the same to you, I prefer to stay here. It is a matter of some weight, which I do not care to discuss in the presence of your overseer or any one but yourself.
_Halla (to Kari)._
Then you had better go up to the fold.
_Kari._
Don't forget to ask the bailiff if it is true that he has been rubbing his knee-joints with fat every night the whole summer through.
[_Exit._
_Bjrn._
He's bold enough, that fellow. It is well we shall soon be rid of him.
_Halla (roused)._
And what was it you wanted to see me about?
_Bjrn._
We were both somewhat angry when we met last. Shall we let it be forgotten?
_Halla (relieved)._
I thought perhaps you had got your letter from the southland with the proofs that you had been wrong in your suspicions.
_Bjrn._
Everything in good time. Did you say anything to him?
_Halla._
I told you I wouldn't.
_Bjrn._
