MRS. ALVING. Thank you; but please keep it--it will be more
convenient.

MANDERS. With pleasure. I think we will leave the money in the Bank
for the present. The interest is certainly not what we could wish--
four per cent. and six months' notice of withdrawal. If a good
mortgage could be found later on--of course it must be a first
mortgage and an unimpeachable security--then we could consider the
matter.

MRS. ALVING. Certainly, my dear Pastor Manders. You are the best
judge in these things.

MANDERS. I will keep my eyes open at any rate.--But now there is
one thing more which I have several times been intending to ask
you.

MRS. ALVING. And what is that?

MANDERS. Shall the Orphanage buildings be insured or not?

MRS. ALVING. Of course they must be insured.

MANDERS. Well, wait a moment, Mrs. Alving. Let us look into the
matter a little more closely.

MRS. ALVING. I have everything insured; buildings and movables and
stock and crops.

MANDERS. Of course you have--on your own estate. And so have I--of