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 ACT SECOND.

Up at the Prospect, a wooded height behind the town. Towards the back stand a landmark and a weather-*vane. Large stones for seats are placed round the landmark and in the foreground. Far below in the background the outer fiord is seen, with islands and jutting promontories. The open sea is not visible. A summer night with clear twilight. There is a tinge of orange in the upper air and over the mountain peaks in the far distance. The sound of quartette-singing is faintly heard from the lower slopes on the right.

Young people from the town, ladies and gentlemen, come in couples up from the right, pass the landmark conversing familiarly, and go out to the left. Shortly afterwards Ballested appears, acting as guide to a party of foreign tourists. He is loaded with the ladies' shawls and satchels.

Ballested.

[Pointing upward with his stick.] Sehen Sie, meine Herrschaften—over dort liegt eine andere height. Das willen wir besteigen too, un herunter

[He continues in English, and leads the party out to the right.

Hilda comes quickly up the slope on the right, stops, and looks backward. Presently Boletta comes up the same way.