Lundestad.
You here alone? If you have no objection, I should like to have a little talk with you.
Stensgård.
With pleasure.
Lundestad.
In the first place, let me say that if any one has told you that I have said anything to your disadvantage, you musn't believe it.
Stensgård.
To my disadvantage? What do you mean?
Lundestad.
Oh, nothing; nothing, I assure you. You see, there are so many busybodies here, that go about doing nothing but setting people by the ears.
Stensgård.
Well, on the whole—I'm afraid our relations are a little strained.
Lundestad.
They are quite natural relations, Mr. Stensgård: the relation of the old to the new; it is always so.
Stensgård.
Oh, come, Mr. Lundestad, you are not so old as all that.
Lundestad.
Yes indeed, I'm getting old. I have held my seat ever since 1839. It's time I should be relieved.
Stensgård.
Relieved?
