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 Werle.

Very good. But as I am thinking of marrying again, your share in the property will fall to you at once.[1]

Gregers. [Quickly.] No, I do not want that.

Werle. You don't want it?

Gregers. No, I dare not take it, for conscience' sake.

Werle.

[After a pause.] Are you going up to the works again?

Gregers.

No; I consider myself released from your service.

Werle. But what are you going to do?

Gregers. Only to fulfil my mission; nothing more.

Werle.

Well, but afterwards? What are you going to live upon?

Gregers. I have laid by a little out of my salary.

1 By Norwegian law, before a widower can marry again, a certain proportion of his property must be settled on his children by his former marriage.