I suppose he is. But it may not have been very easy for him to find any one who would have him.

Lyngstrand.

Why?

Boletta.

Oh, he has been the teacher of nearly every girl he knows. He says so himself.

Lyngstrand.

But what does that matter?

Boletta.

Why, of course, one doesn’t marry a man who has been one’s teacher!

Lyngstrand.