Hovstad.
Why not?
Petra.
Because it flies in the face of all your convictions.
Hovstad.
Well, for that matter——
Petra.
You don’t understand me. It makes out that a supernatural power looks after the so-called good people in this world, and turns everything to their advantage at last; while all the so-called bad people are punished.
Hovstad.
Yes, but that’s all right. That’s the very thing the public like.