Don’t talk of it, don’t talk of it, I say.

Hilmar.

Ugh!

Johan Tönnesen and Dina, followed by Lona and Olaf, come through the garden.

Lona.

Good-morning, good-morning, my dear people.

Johan.

We have been out looking all round the old place, Karsten.

Bernick.

Yes, so I hear. Greatly changed, is it not?