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 Petra.

A sinner?

Morten.

Yes, if you work so hard. Mr. Rörlund says work is a punishment for our sins.

Eilif.

[Contemptuously.] Bosh! What a silly you are, to believe such stuff as that.

Mrs. Stockmann.

Come come, Eilif.

Billing.

[Laughing.] Capital, capital!

Hovstad.

Should you not like to work so hard, Morten?

Morten.

No, I shouldn't.

Hovstad.

Then what will you do with yourself in the world?

Morten.

I should like to be a Viking.

Eilif.

But then you'd have to be a heathen.

Morten.

Well, so I would.

Billing.

There I agree with you, Morten! I say just the same thing.