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——