Bernick.
What now? Are they coming already?
Hilmar.
No, no; but I must speak to some one at once
[He goes out by the second door on the left.
Lona.
Karsten, you say we came to crush you. Then let me tell you what stuff he is made of, this prodigal whom your moral society shrinks from as if he were plague-stricken. He can do without you all, for he has gone away.
Bernick.
But he is coming back
Lona.
Johan will never come back. He has gone for ever, and Dina has gone with him.
Bernick.
Gone for ever? And Dina with him?
LONA.
Yes, to be his wife. That is how these two strike your seraphic society in the face, as I onceNo matter!
Bernick.
Gone!—she too! In the Indian Girl?
Lona.
No; he dared not entrust such a precious freight to a ship with so ruffianly a crew. Johan and Dina have sailed in the Palm Tree.
