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.