So much as that?
Burgomaster.
Yes. But that is not the worst. The work would take at least two years.
Dr. Stockmann.
Two years! Do you mean to say two whole years?
Burgomaster.
At least. And what are we to do with the Baths in the meanwhile? Are we to close them? We should have no alternative. Do you think any one would come here, if it got abroad that the water was pestilential?
Dr. Stockmann.
But, Peter, that’s precisely what it is.
Burgomaster.