Wait a moment—we’ll soon rise from the sepulchre. [_Draws back the curtains._] We must have broad daylight here when my boy comes. Ah—then you shall see a boy that has washed himself——— HILMAR. Ugh! LONA. [_Opens the door and the windows._]——when he _has_ washed himself, I mean—up at the hotel—for on board the steamer you get as dirty as a pig. HILMAR. Ugh, ugh! LONA. “Ugh”? Why if that isn’t——! [_Points to HILMAR, and asks the others._] Does he still loaf about here saying “ugh” to everything? HILMAR. I do not loaf; I remain here by my doctor’s orders. RÖRLUND. Ahem—ladies, I hardly think that—— LONA. [_Catches sight of OLAF._] Is this _your_ youngster, Betty? Give us your fist, my boy! Or are you afraid of your ugly old aunt? RÖRLUND. [_Putting his book under his arm._] I do not think, ladies, that we are quite in the mood for doing more work to-day. But we shall meet again to-morrow? LONA. [_As the visitors rise to go._] Yes, by all means—I shall be here. RÖRLUND. You? Allow me to ask, Miss Hessel, what you will do in _our_ Society? LONA. I will let in fresh air, Pastor. ----- Footnote 21: “Gjort umyndig” = placed under a legal interdict. Footnote 22: When this play was written, Ministers did not sit in the Storthing, and were not responsible to it. This state of things was altered—as Ibsen here predicts—in the great constitutional struggle of 1872-84, which ended in the victory of the Liberal party, their leader, Johan Sverdrup, becoming Prime Minister. Footnote 23: “Havetrappe” here seems to imply a light of steps with so wide a landing at the top as practically to form a verandah, under the sun-shade. In subsequent stage directions, the word is rendered by “verandah.” ACT SECOND. _The garden-room in CONSUL BERNICK’S house._ MRS. BERNICK _is sitting alone at the work-table, sewing. In a little while_ CONSUL BERNICK _enters from the right, with his hat and gloves on, and a stick in his hand._ MRS. BERNICK. Are you home already, Karsten? BERNICK. Yes. I have an appointment here. MRS. BERNICK. [_Sighing._] Oh, yes; I suppose Johan will be down here again. BERNICK. No; it’s with one of my men. [_Takes off his hat._] Where are all the ladies to-day? MRS. BERNICK. Mrs. Rummel and Hilda hadn’t time to come. BERNICK. Indeed! They have sent excuses? MRS. BERNICK.