Good-day, Bernick! Well, I congratulate you on your field-day in the Trade Council yesterday.

Bernick.

Oh, thank you.

Hilmar.

It was a brilliant victory, I hear; the victory of intelligent public spirit over self-interest and prejudice—like a French razzia upon the Kabyles. Strange, that after the unpleasant scene here, you——

Bernick.

Yes, yes, don’t speak of it.

Hilmar.

But the tug-of-war is yet to come.

Bernick.