Yes, Thomas, that’s as certain as that you are standing here.
Dr. Stockmann.
Yes, perhaps, when it is too late. Well, as they make their bed so they must lie! Let them go on wallowing here in their pig-sty, and learn to repent having driven a patriot into exile. When do you sail, Captain Horster?
Horster.
Well—that’s really what I came to speak to you about——
Dr. Stockmann.
What? Anything wrong with the ship?
Horster.
No; but the fact is, I shan’t be sailing in her.
Petra.