Stensgård.

Your children, you say?

Monsen.

Yes; take Bastian, for example. Perhaps I haven’t given him a good education?

Heire.

A threefold education! First for the University; then for painting; and then for—what is it?—it’s a civil engineer he is now, isn’t it?

Bastian.

Yes, that I am, by the Lord!

Monsen.

Yes, that he is; I can produce his bills and his certificates to prove it! But who gets the town business? Who has got the local road-making—especially these last two years? Foreigners, or at any rate strangers—in short, people no one knows anything about!