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 now, Consul! The whole railway is hanging by a thread.

Bernick.

[Absently.] What is it? What am I to?

Lona.

[Earnestly and with emphasis.] You are to rise and support society, brother-in-law!

Sandstad.

Yes, come, come; we need all your moral predominance.

Johan.

[Close to him.] Bernick, we two will talk of this to-morrow.

[He goes out through the garden; Bernick goes out to the right with Sandstad, as if his will were paralysed.