Sir, a word ere you proceed!

Show me a task, a mighty one, you know—!

I’m going in for life—!

Guldstad [with ironical emphasis].

Well, in you go!

You’ll find that you are in for it, indeed.

Falk [looking reflectively at him, says slowly].

There is my program, furnished in a phrase.

[In a lively outburst.

Now I have wakened from my dreaming days,