Lona: You ask whom it injured. Look into your own heart, and tell
me if it has not injured you.
Bernick: Look into any man's heart you please, and you will
always find, in every one, at least one black spot which he has
to keep concealed.
Lona: And you call yourselves pillars of society!
Bernick: Society has none better.
Lona: And of what consequence is it whether such a society be
propped up or not? What does it all consist of? Show and lies--
and nothing else. Here are you, the first man in the town, living
in grandeur and luxury, powerful and respected--you, who have
branded an innocent man as a criminal.
Bernick: Do you suppose I am not deeply conscious of the wrong I
have done him? And do you suppose I am not ready to make amends
to him for it?
Lona: How? By speaking out?
Bernick: Would you have the heart to insist on that?
Lona: What else can make amends for such a wrong?
Bernick: I am rich, Lona; Johan can demand any sum he pleases.
Lona: Yes, offer him money, and you will hear what he will say.
Bernick: Do you know what he intends to do?
Lona: No; since yesterday he has been dumb.
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