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 ACT FIFTH.

The remote corner of Dr. Wangel's garden, by the carp-pond. Deepening summer twilight.

Arnholm, Boletta, Lyngstrand, and Hilda, in a boat on the fiord, are punting along the shore from the left.

Hilda.

Look, we can easily jump ashore here!

Arnholm.

No no, don't do it!

Lyngstrand.

I can't jump, Miss Hilda.

Hilda.

Can't you jump either, Mr. Arnholm?

Arnholm.

I would rather not.

Boletta.

Let us land at the bathing-house steps.

[They punt the boat out to the right.

At that moment Ballested appears from the right, on the footpath, carrying music and a French horn. He greets those in the boat, turns, and talks to them. Their answers are heard farther and farther off.