The Lady From The Sea

Book Excerpt: ...ng has increased here of late years.Lyngstrand. Yes, there's a good deal of traffic here, I think.Ballested. And lots of summer visitors come here too. I often hear our good town will lose its individuality with all these foreign goings on.Lyngstrand. Were you born in the town?Ballested. No; but I have accla--acclimatised myself. I feel united to the place by the bonds of time and habit.Lyngstrand. Then you've lived here a long time?Ballested. Well--about seventeen or eighteen years. I came here with Skive's Dramatic Company. But then we got into difficulties, and so the company broke up and dispersed in all directions.Lyngstrand. But you yourself remained here?Ballested. I remained, and I've done very well. I was then working chiefly as decorative artist, don't you know.(BOLETTE comes out with a rocking-chair, which she places on the verandah.)Bolette (speaking into the room). Hilde, see if you can find the embroidered footstool for father.Lyngstrand (going up to tClose...