[As the New Book-keeper retires, Mrs. Herdal enters in a hat and cloak with a watering-pot, noiselessly.
Mrs. Herdal.
Miss Wangel got up early, before breakfast, and went for a walk. She is so wonderfully vivacious!
Dr. Herdal.
So I should say. But tell me, Aline, is she really going to stay with us here?
[Nervously.
Mrs. Herdal.
[Looks at him.] So she tells me. And, as she has brought nothing with her except a tooth-brush and a powder-puff, I am going into the town to get her a few articles. We must make her feel at home.
Dr. Herdal.
[Breaking out.] I will make her not only feel but be at home, wherever that is, this very day! I will not have a perambulating Allegory without a portmanteau here on an indefinite visit. I say, she shall go—do you hear, Aline? Miss Wangel will go!