Brendel.

And has the Herr Professor any official influence in this doubtless most beneficent Society?

Kroll.

I have nothing to do with it.

Rebecca.

[To Brendel.] You should apply to Peter Mortensgård.

Brendel.

Pardon, madame—what sort of an idiot is he?

Rosmer.

What makes you take him for an idiot?