Morten Kiil.
[Resting his hands and chin on the top of his stick and blinking slyly at the Doctor.] What was it again? Wasn’t it that some animals had got into the water-pipes?
Dr. Stockmann.
Yes; infusorial animals.
Morten Kiil.
And any number of these animals had got in, Petra said—whole swarms of them.
Dr. Stockmann.
Certainly; hundreds of thousands.
Morten Kiil.
But no one can see them—isn’t that it?