No. 4: QUARTET. — NANNA, THORA, ERLING, and TORTENSSEN.

MIDI file Karaoke file

NANNA.

If all is as you say — If honour and wealth and glory Of every sort Are yours —

THORA.

In short, If you’re not telling a story —

NANNA.

If you’re a Count some day —

THORA.

A Baron if you’re created — And all turns out Beyond all doubt Precisely as you’ve stated —

NANNA.

Court sculptor and a peer, With eversomuch a year, Precisely as you’ve stated —

THORA.

Physician to the King With honours and everything, Precisely as you’ve stated —

NANNA and THORA.

Then I will be your bride —

ERLING and TORTENSSEN.

Oh joy!

NANNA and THORA.

And I your bride will be!

ERLING and TORTENSSEN.

Then let us make merry, It’s evident, very, That day we soon shall see —

NANNA and THORA.

When you are qualified —

ERLING and TORTENSSEN.

Oh joy!

NANNA and THORA.

To marry you we agree!

ERLING and TORTENSSEN.

Oh happy decision! Oh vision Elysian! That day we soon shall see!

ERLING.

Compared with our own All others are inkiness!

TORTENSSEN.

They are, alone, Two visions of pinkiness!

ERLING.

Pinkiness, veiled With ivory pellicle —

TORTENSSEN.

Everywhere hailed As simply angelical!

NANNA.

That isn’t true. Ridiculous chatterer!

THORA.

Go along, do, Unscrupulous flatterer!

NANNA.

Only a sweet Individuality!

THORA.

Dainty and neat, But merely mortality!

ERL and TORT.

Merely mortality? Merely mortality? With such a bewitching individuality?

NAN and THO.

Merely too pretty young ladies of quality, Piquante and pleasant — but merely mortality!

ALL.

Then I/you will be your bride — oh joy! And I your/you my bride will be! etc.

Dance and exeunt ERLING and TORTENSSEN.