So it’s really kind, as you promised just now,

To help eke things out.

Peer.

[Thumping the bulwark.]

I’ll be damned if I do.

Do you think I am mad? Would you have me fork out

For the sake of a parcel of other folks’ brats?

I’ve slaved much too sorely in earning my cash

There’s nobody waiting for old Peer Gynt.

The Captain.