Dr. Stockmann.
[Walks up and down in high glee.] Oh, nonsense! After all, I have done no more than my duty. I've been a lucky treasure-hunter, that’s all. But all the same——
Billing.
Hovstad, don’t you think the town ought to get up a torchlight procession in honour of Dr. Stockmann?
Hovstad.
I shall certainly propose it.
Billing.
And I'll talk it over with Aslaksen.
Dr. Stockmann.
No, my dear friends; let all such claptrap alone. I won’t hear of anything of the sort. And if the Directors should want to raise my salary, I won’t accept it. I tell you, Katrina, I will not accept it.