Lundestad.
I suppose one may be permitted to listen; I shall keep quiet.
[Enters the tent.
Heire.
There goes one of the falling trees! There will be a rare uprooting, I can tell you! The place will soon look like a wood after a tornado. Won’t I chuckle over it!
Fieldbo.
Tell me, Mr. Heire, what interest have you in the matter?
Heire.
Interest? I am entirely disinterested, Doctor! If I chuckle, it is on behalf of my fellow citizens. There will be life, spirit, go, in things. For my own part—good Lord, it’s all the same to me; I say, as the Grand Turk said of the Emperor of Austria and the King of France—I don’t care whether the pig eats the dog or the dog the pig.
[Goes out towards the back on the right.