Silence.
Barbro asked: "What's this about you taking over the telegraph after father?"
"What? Who said a word about that?"
"Well, they say it's to be."
"Why," said Axel, "it may come to something; I'll not say no."
"Ho!"
But why d'you ask?"
"Nothing," said Barbro; "only that you've turned my father out of house and home, and now you're taking the bread out of his mouth."
Silence.
Oh, but that was the end of Axel's patience. "I'll tell you this," he cried, "you're not worth all I've done for you and yours!"