Page:The collected works of Henrik Ibsen (Heinemann Volume 2).djvu/353



And now away, two and two,—one spearman and one monk.

[Sitting on a stump behind the rest.] I will guide King Skule.

Know you the way?

The broad way.

Haste you; let us take different paths, and meet outside the convent gate.

[''They go out among the trees, to the right; the fog lifts and the comet shows itself red and glowing, through the hazy air.''

Peter, my son! [Starts backwards.] Ha, there is the flaming sword in heaven!

[Sitting behind him on the stump.] And here am I!

Who are you?

An old acquaintance.

Paler man have I never seen.