MONTANUS. Why not?
JABOC. If that happened, our parents would have to go begging.
MONTANUS. Hear how the fellow talks!
JACOB. Oh, I am full of ideas. If I had studied, I should have been the devil of a rogue.
MONTANUS. I have been told that you had a good head. But what else should you like to do in Copenhagen?
JACOB. I should like to see the Round Tower and the cloister where they make the linen.
MONTANUS. Ha, ha, ha! They're busy with other things besides linen-making in the cloister. But tell me, has my future father-in-law as much money as they say?
JACOB. He surely has. He is a rich old man, and owns nearly a third of the village.
MONTANUS. Have you heard whether he intends to give his daughter a dowry?
JACOB. Oh, I think he will give her a good one, especially if he once hears Mossur preach here in the village.