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The Father.
We'll scatter around on this side of our sæter.[1]
[He and his wife go on ahead.
Solveig.
[To Åse.]
Say on; tell me more. Åse.
[Drying her eyes.]
Of my son, you mean? Solveig. Yes;— Tell everything! Åse.
[Smiles and tosses her head.]
Everything?—Soon you'd be tired! Solveig. Sooner by far will you tire of the telling Than I of the hearing.
SCENE THIRD. Low, treeless heights, close under the mountain moor-*lands; peaks in the distance. The shadows are long; it is late in the day.
Peer Gynt comes running at full speed, and stops short on the hillside.
Peer.
The parish is all at my heels in a pack!
- ↑ Sæter—a châlet, or small mountain farm, where the cattle
are sent to pasture in the summer months.
