The Outlaw and His Wife (1918)

Edith Erastoff: Halla the Widow

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• Berg-Ejvind : Kári has loved you. You are the only woman he has ever loved. But now Kári is no more. He has never been anything but a poor and unhappy man's dream. He has loved you for a long time, but he has never seen how beautiful you are until now - like blue mountain rising out of the mist!

  Halla : Close your eyes, Kári - and sleep for another moment. Kiss me!

  Berg-Ejvind : I want to sleep with my eyes open.

• Björn : I cannot make pretty speeches. I am 48, but you are no longer a child either. If we two join forces it will be a property without equal in the parish. Would you consider becoming my wife?

  [Halla laughs] 

  Björn : Do you think it is so absurd?

  Halla : Show yourself now as you are! When your brother told you he wanted to wed me, you thought it a disgrace to the family for him to marry a penniless servant-girl. You advised him to satisfy what you called his fleeting lust without marriage.

• Halla : I have here a secret place where I store the words my friends have said to me.

• Halla : I did not think your eyes lied to me.

• Halla : I do not want to cry. It is absurd to cry!