Stensgård.

Oh, I was too hasty about that; besides, you yourself advised me not to——

Fieldbo.

I advise you most emphatically to dismiss all thought of either of them.

Stensgård.

Indeed! Perhaps you yourself think of throwing the handkerchief to one of them?

Fieldbo.

I? No, I assure you——

Stensgård.

Well, it wouldn’t have mattered if you had. If people stand in my way and want to balk me of my future, why, I stick at nothing.