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 Burgomaster.

Things look most promising. Inquiries about apartments and so forth keep on pouring in.

Hovstad.

Then the Doctor's paper will come in very opportunely.

Burgomaster.

Has he been writing again?

Hovstad.

This is a thing he wrote in the winter; enlarging on the virtues of the Baths, and on the excellent sanitary conditions of the town. But at that time I held it over.

Burgomaster.

Ah—I suppose there was something not quite judicious about it?

Hovstad.

Not at all. But I thought it better to keep it till the spring, when people are beginning to look about them, and think of their summer quarters

Burgomaster.

You were right, quite right, Mr. Hovstad.

Mrs. Stockmann.

Yes, Thomas is really indefatigable where the Baths are concerned.

Burgomaster.

It is his duty as one of the staff.

Hovstad.

And of course he was really their creator.