" Ugh!
Bernick: What can they want with him?
Hilmar. Oh, he is just the right company for them. He looks as if
he had been a slave-dealer or a pirate; and who knows what the
other two may have been doing all these years.
Bernick: Let me tell you that it is grossly unjust to think such
things about them.
Hilmar: Yes--you are an optimist. But here they are, bearing down
upon us again; so I will get away while there is time. (Goes
towards the door on the left. LONA comes in from the right.)
Lona: Oh, Hilmar, am I driving you away?
Hilmar: Not at all; I am in rather a hurry; I want to have a word
with Betty. (Goes into the farthest room on the left.)
Bernick (after a moment's silence): Well, Lona?
Lona: Yes?
Bernick: What do you think of me today?
Lona: The same as I did yesterday. A lie more or less--
Bernick: I must enlighten you about it. Where has Johan gone?
Lona: He is coming; he had to see a man first.
Bernick: After what you heard yesterday, you will understand that
my whole life will be ruined if the truth comes to light.
Lona: I can understand that.
Bernick: Of course, it stands to reason that I was not guilty of
the crime there was so much talk about here.
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