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LADY INGER OF ÖSTRAT.
[ACT I.
Biörn.
Hush!
[Lady Inger Gyldenlöve enters rapidly from the hall, without noticing the others; she goes to the window, draws the curtain, and gazes out as if watching for some one on the high road; after a while, she turns and goes slowly back into the hall.
Elina.
[Softly, following her with her eyes.] White, white as the dead!
[An uproar of many voices is heard outside the door on the right.
Biörn.
What can this be?
Elina.
Go out and see what is amiss.
[Einar Huk, the bailiff, appears in the anteroom, with a crowd of Retainers and Peasants.
Einar Huk.
[In the doorway.] Straight in to her! And be not abashed!
Biörn.
What seek you?
Einar Huk.
Lady Inger herself.
