Bernick.
I should like to see the shipowner among us that would have the conscience to do such a thing! There isn't one, not a single one.
[Catches sight of Olaf.] Ah, thank goodness, nothing has happened to him.
[Olaf, with a fishing-line in his hand, comes running up the street and through the garden-gate.]
Olaf.
[Still in the garden.] Uncle Hilmar, I've been down seeing the steamboat.
Bernick.
Have you been on the pier again?
Olaf.
No, I was only out in a boat. But just fancy, Uncle Hilmar, a whole circus company came ashore from the steamer, with horses and wild beasts; and there were a lot of passengers besides.
Mrs. Rummel.
Oh, are we to have a circus?
Rörlund.
We? Really I should hope not.
Mrs. Rummel.
No, of course not we, but
Dina.
I should like to see a circus.
Olaf.
Oh, and me too!
