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 Wangel. Was to? Had you no will of your own?

Ellida.

Not when he was near. Oh—afterwards it all seemed so utterly inexplicable to me.

Wangel. Did you see him often?

Ellida.

No, not very often. He went over the lighthouse one day; that is how I came to know him. And afterwards we used to meet occasionally. But then came this affair about the captain; and he had to go away.

Wangel. Oh yes, let me hear about that!

Ellida.

It was in the dusk of the early morning that I got a line from him. It said that I must come out to him at Bratthammer[1]—you know, the headland between the lighthouse and Skioldvik.

Wangel. Yes, yes—I know it well.

Ellida.

I must come there immediately, the note said for he wanted to speak to me.

Wangel. And you went?

1 Pronounce Bratt-hammer.