Asta.

[In the doorway.] Look at all those people running down to the pier!

Allmers.

What can it be? [Looks out for a moment.] No doubt it’s those street urchins at some mischief again.

Borgheim.

[Calls, leaning over the verandah railings.] I say, you boys down there! What’s the matter?

[Several voices are heard answering indistinctly and confusedly.

Rita.

What do they say?

Borgheim.