Why, this is——Betty, Betty!
Bernick.
What now? Are they coming already?
Hilmar.
No, no; but I must speak to some one at once——
[He goes out by the second door on the left.
Lona.
Karsten, you say we came to crush you. Then let me tell you what stuff he is made of, this prodigal whom your moral society shrinks from as if he were plague-stricken. He can do without you all, for he has gone away.
Bernick.
But he is coming back——