Hovstad.
I shall come on presently. I have still one or two things to arrange.
Aslaksen.
Very well.
[Bows and goes. Dr. Stockmann accompanies him into the hall.
Hovstad.
[As the Doctor re-enters.] Well, what do you say to that, Doctor? Don’t you think it is high time we should give all this weak-kneed, half-hearted cowardice a good shaking up?
Dr. Stockmann.
Are you speaking of Aslaksen?
Hovstad.