the new proposals.

Bernick: Well then, explain to them--

Vigeland: Our explanations have no effect, Mr. Bernick.

Rummel: No, no, you must come yourself. Naturally, no one would
dare to suspect you of such duplicity.

Lona: I should think not.

Bernick: I cannot, I tell you; I am not well. Or, at all events,
wait--let me pull myself together. (RORLUND comes in from the
right.)

Rorlund: Excuse me, Mr. Bernick, but I am terribly upset.

Bernick: Why, what is the matter with you?

Rorlund. I must put a question to you, Mr. Bernick. Is it with
your consent that the young girl who has found a shelter under
your roof shows herself in the open street in the company of a
person who--

Lona: What person, Mr. Parson?

Rorlund: With the person from whom, of all others in the world,
she ought to be kept farthest apart!

Lona: Ha! ha!