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 LUNDESTAD.

I think he is prudent—that's what I think.

[They go up to the back conversing, and so out into the garden. At the same time Selma and Stensgård enter by the foremost door on the right.

Selma.

Yes, just look—over the tops of the trees you can see the church tower and all the upper part of the town.

Stensgård.

So you can; I shouldn't have thought so.

Selma.

Don't you think it's a beautiful view?

Stensgård.

Everything is beautiful here: the garden, and the view, and the sunshine, and the people! Great heaven, how beautiful it all is! And you live here all the summer?

Selma.

No, not my husband and I; we come and go. We have a big, showy house in town, much finer than this; you'll see it soon.

Stensgård.

Perhaps your family live in town?

Selma.

My family? Who are my family?

Stensgård.

Oh, I didn't know