Heire.

Don’t let me interrupt you, gentlemen. I wouldn’t for the world——! Thanks, Aslaksen. [Bows to Stensgård.] A strange face—a recent arrival! Have I the pleasure of addressing our new legal luminary, Mr. Stensgård?

Monsen.

Quite right. [Introducing them.] Mr. Stensgård, Mr. Daniel Heire——

Bastian.

Capitalist.

Heire.

Ex-capitalist, you should rather say. It’s all gone now; slipped through my fingers, so to speak. Not that I’m bankrupt—for goodness' sake don’t think that.

Monsen.

Drink, drink, while the froth is on it.