ACT FOURTH
The Banquet Hall, as before, but without the supper-table.
Biörn, the majordomo, enters carrying a lighted branch-candlestick, and lighting in Lady Inger and Olaf Skaktavl by the second door on the left. Lady Inger has a bundle of papers in her hand.
Lady Inger.
[To Biörn.] And you are sure my daughter had speech with the knight, here in the hall?
Biörn.
[Putting down the branch-candlestick on the table on the left.] Sure as may be. I met her even as she stepped into the passage.
Lady Inger.
And she seemed greatly moved? Said you not so?
Biörn.
She looked all pale and disturbed. I asked if she were sick; she answered not, but said: "Go to my mother and tell her the knight sets forth from here ere daybreak; if she have letters
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