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 Arnholm.

Has your step-mother gone to bathe to-day again?

Boletta. No, she is up in her room.

Arnholm. Not quite well?

Boletta. I don't know. She has locked herself in.

Arnholm. H'm—has she?

Lyngstrand.

Mrs. Wangel seemed very much upset about that American yesterday.

Arnholm. What do you know about it?

Lyngstrand.

I told Mrs. Wangel that I had seen him in the flesh, going round behind the garden.

Arnholm. Oh indeed.

Boletta.

[To Arnholm.] You and father sat up late last night, did you not?

Arnholm.

Yes, pretty late. We had an important question to discuss.