What if it were so? I have told you how much it means to me—I must either conciliate the papers, or have them all attacking me at the moment when I am working for a great and beneficent cause. What follows? Can I possibly act otherwise than I am doing? Would you have me, in order to hold your home together, as you call it, sacrifice hundreds of other homes—homes that will never be founded, will never have a smoking hearthstone, if I do not succeed in my present enterprise? You must make your choice.
Aune.
Well, if you put it that way, I’ve got no more to say.
Bernick.
H’m—; my dear Aune, I am truly sorry we must part.
Aune.
We will not part, Consul Bernick.
Bernick.
What?
Aune.