I congratulate you, Mr. Borgheim!
Borgheim.
Hush, hush—I really ought not to talk openly of it as yet! But I can’t help coming out with it! It is a great piece of road-making—up in the north—with mountain ranges to cross, and the most tremendous difficulties to overcome!—[With an outburst of gladness.]—Oh, what a glorious world this is—and what a joy it is to be a road-maker in it!
Rita.
[Smiling, and looking teasingly at him.] Is it road-making business that has brought you out here to-day in such wild spirits?
Borgheim.
No, not that alone. I am thinking of all the bright and hopeful prospects that are opening out before me.
Rita.
Aha, then perhaps you have something still more exquisite in reserve!
Borgheim.