Petra.
Yes, surely you must. Oh, it’s a glorious career you have chosen! To be the pioneer of unrecognised truths and new and daring ways of thought!—even, if that were all, to stand forth fearlessly in support of an injured man——
Hovstad.
Especially when the injured man is—I hardly know how to put it——
Petra.
You mean when he is so upright and true?
Hovstad.
[In a low voice.] I mean—especially when he is your father.
Petra.
[Suddenly taken aback.] That?