LINDGREN. From your fiancée?
AXEL. So you have snooped that out, too?
LINDGREN. Sure enough! And I know what Marie, the deserted one, thinks and says—I know what has happened to your brother and his wife——
AXEL. Oh, you know my fiancée? For, you see, it so happens that I am not yet engaged!
LINDGREN. No, but I know her fiancé.
AXEL. What does that mean?
LINDGREN. Why, she has been running around with another fellow all the time—So you didn't know that?
AXEL. [As he listens for something going on outside] Oh, yes, I knew of it, but I thought she was done with him—See here, if you'll come back in a quarter of an hour, I'll try to get things arranged for you in some way or another.
LINDGREN. Is that a polite way of showing me the door?
AXEL. No, it's an attempt to meet an old obligation. Seriously!