And if he thinks he has a right, let him act accordingly. But you, woman, do not insult my good right by asking favors of the wrong-doer. Good-day, Mr. Möller. Is there anything else you desire? Nothing? Have you anything else to tell me?
MÖLLER (very pompously).
Nothing beyond the fact that your incumbency of the post of forester ceases with the present moment. Here is your salary—a half year in advance. In consideration whereof, as soon as possible, within three days at the latest, you will vacate this house, so that the present forester may move in, upon whom, from this moment on, rests the sole responsibility for the forest.
[The FORESTER is obliged to sit down.]
SOPHY (to ANDREW, whom she has been compelled to restrain all the while, and who now rushes toward the door).
Where are you going, Andrew?
ANDREW.
I am going to tell Robert what his father—
SOPHY.
Don't you dare to—