LADY ANNA. Well, I see what this is leading to. You know I don't
usually oppose you.

HADDA PADDA. Father, you're always so good to me. [_Kisses him._]

THE JUDGE [_in a whisper to Hadda_]. Now kiss your mother too!

HADDA PADDA. Nice mother! I will be twice as much pleasure to you
when I come back. [_Kisses her._]

LITTLE SKULI [_enters_]. Hadda Padda, do you want the ship to have
two or three masts?

HADDA PADDA. Now let me see, my boy. [_Goes out with him._]

THE JUDGE. To-morrow--that will be a happy day. At last I shall
see my fondest wish fulfilled, mine and my dear old friend's--that
our children should belong to each other. I never suspected this
would happen when Hrafnhild went abroad last year.

LADY ANNA. And now she is to go with him again. She has much to
thank her father for.

THE JUDGE. I think time has kept them apart long enough.--I had a
long talk with Helga the other day--they are very good friends,
you know, and she was in Copenhagen at the same time as Hadda last
year. She told me that Ingolf had quite given up his studies, and
it was Hadda Padda who made him take them up again. ... From
Christmas on, last year, he studied from morning to night,--and
now he will pass his examination, and begin here as an attorney.