Bernick (at the same time): Dina, dear, will you go and ask Katrine
to bring us our coffee?
Martha: I will go with you, Dina.
(DINA and MARTHA go out by the farther door on, the left.)
Mrs. Bernick (getting up): Will you excuse me for a few minutes?
I think we will have our coffee outside. (She goes out to the
verandah and sets to work to lay a table. RORLUND stands in the
doorway talking to her. HILMAR sits outside, smoking.)
Mrs. Rummel (in a low voice): My goodness, Mrs. Lynge, how you
frightened me!
Mrs.Lynge: I?
Mrs.Holt: Yes, but you know it was you that began it, Mrs.
Rummel.
Mrs.Rummel: I? How can you say such a thing, Mrs. Holt? Not a
syllable passed my lips!
Mrs.Lynge: But what does it all mean?
Mrs.Rummel: What made you begin to talk about--? Think--did you
not see that Dina was in the room?
Mrs.Lynge: Dina? Good gracious, is there anything wrong with--?
Mrs.Holt: And in this house, too! Did you not know it was Mrs.
Bernick's brother--?
Mrs.Lynge: What about him? I know nothing about it at all; I am
quite new to the place, you know.
Mrs.Rummel: Have you not heard that--? Ahem!
(To her daughter) Hilda, dear, you can go for a little stroll in the
garden?
Mrs.
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