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Vigeland (who has followed the others out of BERNICK'S room): And in
your own yard, Mr. Bernick!
Bernick: I shall never see him again, I tell you. I have lost him,
Lona; and--I see it now--he never was really mine. (Listens.) What is
that?
Rummel: Music. The procession must be coming.
Bernick. I cannot take any part in it--I will not.
Rummel: What are you thinking of! That is impossible.
Sandstad: Impossible, Mr. Bernick; think what you have at stake.
Bernick: What does it all matter to me now? What have I to work for
now?
Rummel: Can you ask? You have us and the community.
Vigeland: Quite true.
Sandstad: And surely, Mr. Bernick, you have not forgotten that
we--.(MARTHA comes in through the farther door to the left. Music
is heard in the distance, down the street.)
Martha: The procession is just coming, but Betty is not in the house. I
don't understand where she--
Bernick: Not in the house! There, you see, Lona--no support to me,
either in gladness or in sorrow.
Rummel: Draw back the curtains! Come and help me, Mr. Krap--and you,
Mr. Sandstad. It is a thousand pities that the family should not be
united just now; it is quite contrary to the program.
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