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The pastor Strawman and the clerk Styver attempt to persuade Falk from his course but the demands of respectability and security cannot assuage him.

Finally, the rich businessman Guldstad asks whether their relationship can survive the waning of the first flush of love.

Falk and Svanhild admit that it cannot and Svanhild accepts Guldstad ’ s proposal of a safe, financially secure marriage rather than sully the experience of her love for Falk by seeing it die.

Falk leaves to write songs which celebrate an untainted love and Svanhild sits gloomily amongst the world of convention – a housewife who once had passion and now lives on its memory.