Fieldbo.

Not a bad calculation. And to succeed in all this, you feel that you must strike root here more firmly than you have as yet done?

Stensgård.

Yes, these people always demand material guarantees, community of interests——

Fieldbo.

Just so; and therefore Miss Bratsberg is to be sacrificed?

Stensgård.

Sacrificed? If that were so, I should be no better than a scoundrel. But it will be for her happiness, that I’m convinced. What now? Fieldbo, why do you look like that? You have some underhand scheme of your own——

Fieldbo.

I?