plunge of youth, and now you shall be a man! You have looked for
happiness in the wrong direction. Don't you want to go out and do
good, enlighten your fellow-men, and be useful? For your clear
vision can penetrate the perversion and crookedness which one finds
in life.

PEHR. And be a great man!

LISA. Great or obscure, it is all one. You shall be useful--you
shall be a reformer who leads humanity onward and upward.

PEHR. Yes, a reformer who will be honored and idolized by the
people, and whose name will be on everyone's lips.

LISA. Oh, how far you are from the truth, Pehr! You seek greatness
only for personal honor; you shall have it and you shall have a new
experience.

PEHR. But how? My ring is gone!

LISA. The qualities inherent in that ring are such that it can
never be away from its owner.

PEHR. [Looks at his hand.] Ah! See, there it is! Well, then, I want
to be a great man--a reformer; but you, Lisa, must follow me.

LISA. Not yet. But I will follow thee at a distance, and when thou
dost meet with sorrow and need and the sun of happiness is for thee
o'erclouded, then I will be near thee with my weak support. Go thou
out into life, see what wrongs are done there; but when 'midst