What can they want with him?
Hilmar.
Oh, it’s very appropriate company. They say he has been a slave-dealer or a pirate; and who knows what that couple have turned their hands to in all these years.
Bernick.
I tell you, such innuendoes are utterly unjust.
Hilmar.
Yes, you are an optimist. But here we have them upon us again of course; so I shall get away in time.
[Goes towards the door on the left.
Lona Hessel enters from the right.
Lona.