excellence on our side.

Johan (aside, to BERNICK): Karsten, we will have a talk about
this tomorrow. (Goes out through the garden. BERNICK, looking
half dazed, goes out to the right with SANDSTAD.)


ACT III


(SCENE--The same room. BERNICK, with a cane in his hand and
evidently in a great rage, comes out of the farther room on the
left, leaving the door half-open behind him.)

Bernick (speaking to his wife, who is in the other room): There!
I have given it him in earnest now; I don't think he will forget
that thrashing! What do you say?--And I say that you are an
injudicious mother! You make excuses for him, and countenance any
sort of rascality on his part--Not rascality? What do you call
it, then? Slipping out of the house at night, going out in a
fishing boat, staying away till well on in the day, and giving me
such a horrible fright when I have so much to worry me! And then
the young scamp has the audacity to threaten that he will run
away! Just let him try it!--You? No, very likely; you don't
trouble yourself much about what happens to him. I really believe
that if he were to get killed--! Oh, really? Well, I have work to
leave behind me in the world; I have no fancy for being left
childless--Now, do not raise objections, Betty; it shall be as I
say--he is confined to the house. (Listens.) Hush; do not let any
one notice anything. (KRAP comes in from the right.)