STEINDOR. I can't search any better than I have,
HADDA PADDA. Then it is due to the fog. Probably I have to wait
till later ... No, I can't go home without them.
STEINDOR. The fog is not so dense, that they couldn't be found on
its account. You can see all around, down in the gorge. Just look!
HADDA PADDA [walks out to the edge, looks down, turns round
abruptly]. Did you search in the pool near the big stone? It might
have fallen there.
STEINDOR. I took a look at it, but I didn't see anything.
INGOLF. I would have seen them glitter in the water, if they were
there.
HADDA PADDA. Glitter in the water! And the pool covered with duck-
weed! So that's how you searched!--Did you look all through the
duck-weed, did you fish it out of the pond, to see if the pearls
were hidden in it?
INGOLF. No, I didn't do that.
STEINDOR. No, it may be possible--
HADDA PADDA. Yes, it is possible, to be sure. Hundreds of women
might have lost their pearls down there, without your having found
them.
STEINDOR. No, I think you are the only one...
HADDA PADDA [turns quickly toward Ingolf]. What do you think
mother will say when she hears that I have lost the heirloom?--
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