Manders.
Well, you see, Engstrand, I have a question to put to you first. Are you in the right frame of mind for such a meeting! Do you feel your conscience clear and at ease?
Engstrand.
Oh, God help us, your Reverence! we’d better not talk about conscience.
Manders.
Yes, that is just what we must talk about. What have you to answer?
Engstrand.
Why—a man’s conscience—it can be bad enough now and then.
Manders.
Ah, you admit that. Then perhaps you will make a clean breast of it, and tell me—the real truth about Regina?