Johan: You mean she might have married?

Bernick: Yes, and married very well, too. She has had several
good offers--curiously enough, when you think that she is a poor
girl, no longer young, and, besides, quite an insignificant
person.

Johan: Insignificant?

Bernick: Oh, I am not blaming her for that. I most certainly
would not wish her otherwise. I can tell you it is always a good
thing to have a steady-going person like that in a big house like
this--some one you can rely on in any contingency.

Johan: Yes, but what does she--?

Bernick: She? How? Oh well, of course she has plenty to interest
herself in; she has Betty and Olaf and me. People should not
think first of themselves--women least of all. We have all got
some community, great or small, to work for. That is my
principle, at all events. (Points to KRAP, who has come in from
the right.) Ah, here is an example of it, ready to hand. Do you
suppose that it is my own affairs that are absorbing me just now?
By no means. (Eagerly to KRAP.) Well?

Krap (in an undertone, showing him a bundle of papers): Here are
all the sale contracts, completed.

Bernick: Capital! Splendid!--Well, Johan, you must really excuse