Morten Kiil.

Do you really think he’ll be so crazy?

Dr. Stockmann.

I hope the whole town will be so crazy.

Morten Kiil.

The whole town! Well, I don’t say but it may. But it serves them right; it’ll teach them a lesson. They wanted to be so much cleverer than we old fellows. They hounded me out of the Town Council. Yes; I tell you they hounded me out like a dog, that they did. But now it’s their turn. Just you keep up the game with them, Stockmann.

Dr. Stockmann.

Yes, but, father-in-law——

Morten Kiil.

Keep it up, I say. [Rising.] If you can make the Burgomaster and his gang eat humble pie, I'll give a hundred crowns straight away to the poor.