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.