Should we not get some one to go down and help them?

Allmers.

[Harshly and angrily.] Help them, who did not help Eyolf! Let them go—as they let Eyolf go.

Rita.

Oh, you must not talk like that, Alfred! Nor think like that!

Allmers.

I cannot think otherwise. All the old hovels ought to be torn down.

Rita.

And then what is to become of all the poor people?

Allmers.