Bernick: Ah!

Mrs. Bernick: My God! my God!

Johan (rushing at RORLUND with uplifted arm): And you dare to--

Lona (restraining him): Do not strike him, Johan!

Rorlund: That is right, assault me! But the truth will out; and
it is the truth--Mr. Bernick has admitted it-- and the whole town
knows it. Now, Dina, you know him. (A short silence.)

Johan (softly, grasping BERNICK by the arm): Karsten, Karsten,
what have you done?

Mrs. Bernick (in tears): Oh, Karsten, to think that I should have
mixed you up in all this disgrace!

Sandstad (coming in hurriedly from the right, and calling out,
with his hand still on the door-handle): You positively must come
now, Mr. Bernick. The fate of the whole railway is hanging by a
thread.

Bernick (abstractedly): What is it? What have I to--

Lona (earnestly and with emphasis): You have to go and be a
pillar of society, brother-in-law.

Sandstad: Yes, come along; we need the full weight of your moral