Is it not true then?

Ringdal.

Not a word of it, so far as the Chamberlain is concerned. How could you believe such nonsense? Who has been humbugging you?

Stensgård.

I won’t tell you just yet.

Ringdal.

Well, you needn’t; but whoever it was must have had a motive.

Stensgård.

A motive—-!

Ringdal.