I am sure you had every reason to--
Bernick: Don't talk about it, please.
Hilmar: Ugh!
(JOHAN TONNESEN and DINA come up through the garden, followed by
LONA and OLAF.)
Lona: Good morning, dear people!
Johan: We have been out having a look round the old place,
Karsten.
Bernick: So I hear. Greatly altered, is it not?
Lona: Mr. Bernick's great and good works everywhere. We have been
up into the Recreation Ground you have presented to the town.
Bernick: Have you been there?
Lona: "The gift of Karsten Bernick," as it says over the gateway.
You seem to be responsible for the whole place here.
Johan: Splendid ships you have got, too. I met my old
schoolfellow, the captain of the "Palm Tree."
Lona: And you have built a new school-house too; and I hear that
the town has to thank you for both the gas supply and the water
supply.
Bernick: Well, one ought to work for the good of the community
one lives in.
Lona: That is an excellent sentiment, brother-in-law, but it is a
pleasure, all the same, to see how people appreciate you. I am
not vain, I hope; but I could not resist reminding one or two of
the people we talked to that we were relations of yours.
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