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.