Rosmer.
[Rises.] What! Into your own house——?
Rebecca.
[Goes over to the Rector.] My dear Rector, what has happened?
Kroll.
Would you believe that my own children——In short, it is Laurits that is the ringleader of the school conspiracy; and Hilda has embroidered a red portfolio to keep the “Beacon” in.
Rosmer.
I should certainly never have dreamt that, in your own house——
Kroll.
No, who would have dreamt of such a thing? In my house, the very home of obedience and order—where one will, and one only, has always prevailed——