DR. ÖSTERMARK. Oh, I don't mean playing at cards. But all ladies play a little.
MISS AMÉLIE. Evidently you are just from the country.
DR. ÖSTERMARK. Yes, just from the country. Can I be of any slight service to you?
MISS THÉRÈSE. Pardon, but we don't know with whom we have the honor—?
DR. ÖSTERMARK. You ladies have evidently just come from Stockholm. In this country we can talk to each other without asking for references.
MISS AMÉLIE. We haven't asked for references.
DR. ÖSTERMARK. What do you ask, then? To have your curiosity satisfied? Well, I'm an old family physician and my name is Anderson. Perhaps I may know your names now?—Character not needed.
MISS THÉRÈSE. We are the Misses Hall, if that can be of any interest to the doctor.
DR. ÖSTERMARK. Hall? H'm! I've surely heard that name before. Pardon, pardon me a question, a somewhat countrified question—
MISS AMÉLIE.—Don't be bashful!