Take care! The Chamberlain is powerful. Don’t play tricks in the lion’s den!
Heire.
Bratsberg a lion? Pooh, he’s a blockhead, sir, and I am not. Oh, won’t I get a rare crop of taunts, and jibes, and innuendoes out of this, when once our great suit comes on!
Selma.
[Calls from the circle.] Learned judge, what shall the owner of this forfeit do?
Erik.
[Unnoticed, to Heire.] It’s Stensgård’s! Think of something amusing.
Heire.
That forfeit? Hee-hee, let me see; he might, for example—yes—he shall make a speech!
Selma.