[Going to meet him.] Welcome my dear Arnholm! Heartily welcome to your old haunts again.
Arnholm.
Thank you, thank you, Doctor Wangel. A thousand thanks. [They shake hands and cross the garden together.] And here are the children! [Holds out his hands to them and looks at them.] These two I should scarcely have known again.
Wangel.
No, I daresay not.
Arnholm.
Oh well,—perhaps Boletta.—Yes, I should have known Boletta.
Wangel.
Scarcely, I think. Let me see, it’s eight or nine years since you saw her last. Ah yes, there has been many a change here since then.
Arnholm.