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 that's as clear as daylight. For I want to have it a bit lively-like in the evenings, with singing and dancing, and so on. You must remember they're weary wanderers on the ocean of life. [Nearer.] Now don't be a fool and stand in your own light, Regina. What's to become of you out here? Your mistress has given you a lot of learning; but what good is that to you? You're to look after the children at the new Orphanage, I hear. Is that the sort of thing for you, eh? Are you so dead set on wearing your life out for a pack of dirty brats?

Regina.

No; if things go as I want them toWell there's no saying—there's no saying.

Engstrand.

What do you mean by "there's no saying"?

Regina.

Never you mind.—How much money have you saved?

Engstrand.

What with one thing and another, a matter of seven or eight hundred crowns.[1]

Regina.

That's not so bad.

Engstrand.

It's enough to make a start with, my girl.

Regina.

Aren't you thinking of giving me any?

1 A "krone" is equal to one shilling and three-halfpence.