Stensgård.

The League shall remain as it is; it’s founded on a pretty broad basis. Its purpose is to counteract noxious influences; and I am just beginning to realise what side the noxious influences come from.

Fieldbo.

But do you think the “Youth” will see it in the same light?

Stensgård.

They shall! I have surely a right to expect fellows like that to bow before my superior insight.

Fieldbo.

But if they won’t?

Stensgård.

Then they can go their own way. I have done with them. You don’t suppose I am going to let my life slip into a wrong groove, and never reach the goal, for the sake of mere blind, pig-headed consistency!