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_ THIRD ACT SCENE IX
[The Preceding. INGEBORG comes hurriedly out of the hut and pulls HEMMING behind her.]
INGEBORG.
Here I am! Hemming has found me!
ALL.
[ASTONISHED]
Ingeborg and Hemming! Up here!
ARNE.
[Irritated.]
Ah, then shall--
INGEBORG.
[Throws herself about his neck.]
O father, father! It will not avail you; you have given your word!
ARNE.
But that did not apply to him! Now I see it all right; he has taken you away himself.
INGEBORG.
No, to the contrary, father! It was I who took him away!
ARNE.
[Frightened.]
Will you be silent with such words! Are you out of your head?
INGEBORG.
[Softly.] Then say "yes" right here on the spot! Otherwise I shall proclaim to all people that it was I who--
ARNE.
Hush, hush! I am saying "yes"!
[Steps between them and looks sternly at HEMMING.]
ARNE.
It was you then who stole my dapple-gray horse with saddle and bridle?
HEMMING.
Alas, Lord Arne!--
ARNE.
O Hemming! Hemming! You are a--
[Stops to consider.]
ARNE.
Well, you are my daughter's betrothed; let it all be forgotten.
HEMMING AND INGEBORG.
O, thanks, thanks! _
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