[Leans further back in the chair.] Aha—aha!

Tesman.

But who can my competitor be? Surely not——?

Brack.

Yes, precisely—Eilert Lövborg.

Tesman.

[Clasping his hands.] No, no—it’s quite inconceivable! Quite impossible! Eh?

Brack.

H’m—that is what it may come to, all the same.

Tesman.