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 Mrs. Lynge. Were things really so bad as all that?

Mrs. Rummel. They were as bad as bad could be, Mrs. Lynge. You may thank your stars that you didn't live here then.

Mrs. Holt. Yes, there has certainly been a great change! When I think of the time when I was a girl

Mrs. Rummel. Oh, you needn't go back more than fourteen or fifteen years—heaven help us, what a life people led! There was a dancing club and a music club

Martha. And the dramatic club—I remember it quite well.

Mrs. Rummel. Yes; it was there your play was acted, Mr. Tönnesen.

Hilmar. [At the back.] Oh, nonsense!

Rörlund. Mr. Tönnesen's play?

Mrs. Rummel. Yes; that was long before you came here, Doctor. Besides, it only ran one night.

Mrs. Lynge. Wasn't it in that play you told me you played the heroine, Mrs. Rummel?