Yes, yes! That’s right! Sit down! Sit down!
Dr. Stockmann.
[Flaring up.] Then I shall proclaim the truth at every street corner! I shall write to newspapers in other towns! The whole country shall know how matters stand here!
Hovstad.
It almost seems as if the Doctor’s object were to ruin the town.
Dr. Stockmann.
Yes, so well do I love my native town that I would rather ruin it than see it flourishing upon a lie.
Aslaksen.
That’s plain speaking.
[Noise and whistling. Mrs. Stockmann coughs in vain; the Doctor no longer heeds her.