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 Lundestad.

Find an opportunity and apologise to the Chamberlain.

Stensgård.

By heaven, I will!

Selma.

Make haste, make haste!

Stensgård.

I'm coming! Here I am!

[The game goes on with noise and laughter. Some elderly gentlemen play cards on the right. Lundestad takes a seat on the left; Daniel Heire near him.

Heire.

That whelp twits me with my legal experience, does he?

Lundestad.

He's rather free with his tongue, that's certain.

Heire.

And so the whole family goes and fawns upon him. Hee-hee! They're pitifully afraid of him.

Lundestad.

No, there you are wrong, Mr. Heire; the Chamberlain is not afraid of him.

Heire.

Not afraid? Do you think I'm blind, my good sir?