Tit for tat, my dear Bastian—you must put in a word for me too.

Bastian.

I? With whom?

Stensgård.

Have you really not noticed anything? Yet it’s before your very nose.

Bastian.

You surely don’t mean——?

Stensgård.

Your sister Ragna? Yes, it is she. Oh, you don’t know how I have been moved by the sight of her quiet, self-sacrificing devotion to her home——

Bastian.