Riis. Yes, because I should never have chosen that trimming. However, the "under the circumstances" is not so bad. A good cut, too—yes. Aha! Just you wail till my portmanteau comes!
Svava. Some surprises for us?
Riis. Big ones!—By the way, I have something here. (Goes into his room.)
Svava. Do you know, mother, he seems to me more restless than ever.
Mrs. Riis. That is happiness, dear.
Svava. And yet father's restlessness has always something a little sad about it. He is—. (RIIS comes out of his room again.) Do you know what I heard a cabinet minister say about you yesterday?
Riis. A man of that stamp is sure to say something worth hearing.
Svava. "We all always look upon your father, Miss Riis, as our Well-dressed man par excellence."
Riis. Ah, a bien dit son excellence! But I can tell you something better than that. You are getting your father a knighthood.
Svava. I am?