Valborg. Oh, He will forgive us, because we speak the truth.
Mrs. Tialde. Child, child!
Tjaelde. You evidently don't understand what business is—success one day and failure the next.
Valborg. No one will ever persuade me that business is a lottery.
Tjaelde. No, a sound business is not.
Valborg. Exactly. It is the unsound sort that I condemn.
Tjaelde. Still, even the soundest have their anxious moments.
Valborg. If the anxious moments really foreshadow a crisis, no man of honour would keep his family o: his creditors in ignorance of the fact. My God, how Mr. Möller has deceived his!
Signe. Valborg is always talking about business!
Valborg. Yes, it has had an attraction for me ever since I was a child. I am not ashamed of that.