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[Whispers.] Hold your peace!

Nearer? What mean you?

Have you not heard, then, that Gudmund Alfson has come back to Norway? He came with the Chancellor Audun of Hegranes, who was sent to France to bring home our new Queen.

True enough; but in these very days the King holds his wedding-feast in full state at Bergen, and there is Gudmund Alfson a guest.

And there could we too have been guests had my wife so willed it.

[Aside to ] Then Dame Margit knows not that—?

[Aside.] So it would seem; but keep your counsel. [Aloud.] Well, well, Dame Margit, I must go my way none the less, and see what may betide. At nightfall I will be here again.

And then you must show whether you have power to bridle your unruly spirit.