Good, you say? This bill here?
Stensgård.
Yes,[Yes,] look closely at it.
Heire.
[Enters from the right.] Why, what the deuce can be the meaning of——Ah, how interesting! Do remain as you are, gentlemen, I beg! Do you know what you irresistibly remind me of? Of a summer night in the Far North.
Lundestad.
That’s a curious simile.
Heire.
A very obvious one—the setting and the rising sun together. Delightful, delightful! But, talking of that, what the deuce is the matter outside there? Your fellow citizens are scuttling about like frightened fowls, cackling and crowing and not knowing what perch to settle on.
Stensgård.