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 Stensgård.

No, you shall not go! I believe Providence guided you here at this moment. Oh, why do you shrink from me? You used not to.

Ragna.

Ah, that is all over, thank God!

Stensgård.

But why?

Ragna.

I have learnt to know you better; it is well that I learned in time.

Stensgård.

Oh, that is it? People have been lying about me? Perhaps I am to blame too; I have been lost in a maze of perplexities. But that is past now. Oh, the very sight of you makes a better man of me. It is you I care for, deeply and truly; it is you I love, Ragna—you and no other!

Ragna.

Let me pass! I am afraid of you

Stensgård.

Oh, but to-morrow, Ragna—may I come and speak to you to-morrow?

Ragna.

Yes, yes, if you must; only for heaven's sake not to-day.

Stensgård.

Only not to-day! Hurrah! I have won; now I am happy!