Hovstad.
To you, as a doctor and a man of science, this business of the water-works appears an isolated affair. I daresay it hasn’t occurred to you that a good many other things are bound up with it?
Dr. Stockmann.
Indeed! In what way? Let us sit down, my dear fellow.—No; there, on the sofa.
[Hovstad sits on sofa; the Doctor in an easy-chair on the other side of the table.
Dr. Stockmann.
Well, so you think——?
Hovstad.
You said yesterday that the water is polluted by impurities in the soil.
Dr. Stockmann.