Mrs. Holt: Had to run away, you must understand.
Mrs. Lynge: Then it is he the scandal is about?
Mrs. Rummel: Yes; there was something--how shall I put it?--there was something of some kind between him and Dina's mother. I remember it all as if it were yesterday. Johan Tonnesen was in old Mrs. Bernick's office then; Karsten Bernick had just come back from Paris--he had not yet become engaged--
Mrs. Lynge: Yes, but what was the scandal?
Mrs. Rummel: Well, you must know that Moller's company were acting in the town that winter--
Mrs. Holt: And Dorf, the actor, and his wife were in the company. All the young men in the town were infatuated with her.
Mrs. Rummel: Yes, goodness knows how they could think her pretty. Well, Dorf came home late one evening--
Mrs. Holt: Quite unexpectedly.
Mrs. Rummel: And found his-- No, really it isn't a thing one can talk about.
Mrs. Holt: After all, Mrs. Rummel, he didn't find anything, because the door was locked on the inside.