We’ll have a jolly evening when it’s all over; but remember what you, as well as I, have at stake; your paper——Come, now, my good fellow, let me see that you can——

Aslaksen.

There, that’s enough now; I’m old enough to look after myself.

[Goes out to the right.

Madam Rundholmen.

[Enters from the left, elaborately dressed.] Now, Mr. Stensgård, I’m at your service. Is it anything of importance——?

Stensgård.

No, only that I want you to be good enough to let me know when Mr. Monsen comes.

Madam Rundholmen.

He won’t be here to-day.