Lona: "The gift of Karsten Bernick," as it says over the gateway.
You seem to be responsible for the whole place here.

Johan: Splendid ships you have got, too. I met my old
schoolfellow, the captain of the "Palm Tree."

Lona: And you have built a new school-house too; and I hear that
the town has to thank you for both the gas supply and the water
supply.

Bernick: Well, one ought to work for the good of the community
one lives in.

Lona: That is an excellent sentiment, brother-in-law, but it is a
pleasure, all the same, to see how people appreciate you. I am
not vain, I hope; but I could not resist reminding one or two of
the people we talked to that we were relations of yours.

Hilmar: Ugh!

Lona: Do you say "ugh" to that?

Hilmar: No, I said "ahem."

Lona: Oh, poor chap, you may say that if you like. But are you
all by yourselves today?

Bernick: Yes, we are by ourselves today.

Lona: Ah, yes, we met a couple of members of your Morality