Yes, there seems to be a continual coming and going.

Ballested.

The place is full of summer visitors too. I’m sometimes afraid that our good town may lose its character with all this foreign invasion.

Lyngstrand.

Are you a native of the place?

Ballested.

No, I am not. But I have accla—acclimatised myself. I have become attached to the place by the bonds of time and habit.

Lyngstrand.

You have lived here a long time, then?

Ballested.