Bastian.
Hypocrisy!
Stensgård.
Yes; you are lying to yourself, at any rate. You talk in one breath of town-contracts and of love. Why not call a spade a spade? There's something sordid about all this; I will have nothing to do with it.
Bastian.
But listen!
Stensgård.
Do your dirty work yourself, I say! [To Fieldbo, who enters from the right.] Well, how goes the election?
Fieldbo.
Excellently for you, it appears. I saw Lundestad just now; he said you were getting all the votes.
Stensgård.
Am I indeed?
Fieldbo.
But what good will they do you? Since you're not a man of property
Stensgård.
[Between his teeth.] Isn't it confounded!
Fieldbo.
Well, you can't do two things at once. If you win on the one side, you must be content to lose on the other. Good-bye! [Goes out by the back,
Bastian.
What did he mean by winning and losing?
