Manders.

This is the most terrible night I ever went through.

Regina.

Yes; isn’t it a dreadful misfortune, sir?

Manders.

Oh, don’t talk about it! I can hardly bear to think of it.

Regina.

How can it have happened——?

Manders.

Don’t ask me, Miss Engstrand! How should I know? Do you, too——? Is it not enough that your father——?