Lundestad.
To Monsen? No, certainly not to Monsen.
Stensgård.
Then I don’t understand——
Lundestad.
Suppose, now, I did retire in Monsen’s favour: do you think he would be elected?
Stensgård.
It’s hard to say. As the preliminary election comes on the day after to-morrow, there may scarcely be time to prepare the public mind; but——
Lundestad.
I don’t believe he would manage it. The Chamberlain’s party, my party, would not vote for him. Of course “my party” is a figure of speech; I mean the men of property, the old families, who are settled on their own land and belong to it. They won’t have anything to do with Monsen. Monsen is a newcomer; no one really knows anything about Monsen and his affairs. And then he has had to cut down so much to clear a place for himself—to fell both trees and men, you may say.