will cause a great sensation when it's known that Pastor Rosmer of Rosmersholm is prepared to take up arms for the cause of light, in that sense too.
Rosmer.
I don't quite understand you.
Mortensgård.
I mean that the moral position of our party is greatly strengthened whenever we gain an adherent of serious, Christian principles.
Rosmer.
[With some surprise.] Then you do not know? Did not Miss West tell you that too?
Mortensgård.
What, Pastor Rosmer? Miss West was in a great hurry. She said I was to go upstairs and hear the rest from yourself.
Rosmer.
Well, in that case I may tell you that I have emancipated myself entirely, and on every side. I have broken with all the dogmas of the Church. Henceforth they are nothing to me.
Mortensgård.
[Looks at him in amazement.] Well—if the skies were to fall I couldn't be more! Pastor Rosmer himself announces
Rosmer.
Yes, I now stand where you have stood for many years. That, too, you may announce in the "Beacon" to-morrow.
