Stensgård.

You needn’t. Henceforth I will be my own counsellor.

[Goes out by the back.

Monsen.

[At the punch-bowl.] Another glass, Aslaksen! Where’s Bastian?

Aslaksen.

He’s just gone out. But I have a letter to deliver for him.

Monsen.

Have you?

Aslaksen.