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 SOLVEIG
 * Wait; I will help you; the burden we'll share.

PEER
 * No, stay where you are! I must bear it alone.

SOLVEIG
 * But don't go too far, dear!

PEER
 * Be patient, my girl;
 * be my way long or short-you must wait.

SOLVEIG [nodding to him as he goes].
 * Yes, I'll Wait!

[PEER GYNT goes down the wood-path. SOLVEIG remains standing in the open half-door.]

SCENE FOURTH
[ASE's room. Evening. The room is lighted by a wood fire on the open hearth. A cat is lying on a chair at the foot of the bed.] [ASE lies in the bed, fumbling about restlessly with her hands on the coverlet.] ASE
 * Oh, Lord my God, isn't he coming?
 * The time drags so drearily on.
 * I have no one to send with a message;
 * and I've much, oh so much, to say.
 * I haven't a moment to lose now!
 * So quickly! Who could have foreseen