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Fieldbo.
Why, this is the merest extravagance! Yesterday it was Miss Monsen
Stensgård.
Oh, I was too hasty about that; besides, you yourself advised me not to
Fieldbo.
I advise you most emphatically to dismiss all thought of either of them.
Stensgård.
Indeed! Perhaps you yourself think of throwing the handkerchief to one of them?
Fieldbo.
I? No, I assure you
Stensgård.
Well, it wouldn't have mattered if you had. If people stand in my way and want to balk me of my future, why, I stick at nothing.
Fieldbo.
Take care I don't say the same!
Stensgård.
You! What right have you to pose as guardian and protector to Chamberlain Bratsberg's family?
Fieldbo.
I have at least the right of a friend.
