Mrs.Bernick: Karsten, you really must come out here and tell us--

Bernick: My dear Betty, it is an affair that does not concern
ladies at all.

Hilmar: Then you are really going to support this railway scheme
after all?

Bernick: Yes, naturally.

Rorlund: But last year, Mr. Bernick--

Bernick: Last year it was quite another thing. At that time it
was a question of a line along the coast--

Vigeland: Which would have been quite superfluous, Mr. Rorlund;
because, of course, we have our steamboat service--

Sandstad: And would have been quite unreasonably costly--

Rummel: Yes, and would have absolutely ruined certain important
interests in the town.

Bernick: The main point was that it would not have been to the
advantage of the community as a whole. That is why I opposed it,
with the result that the inland line was resolved upon.

Hilmar: Yes, but surely that will not touch the towns about here.