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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Laura. Yes, it is singular, but I have never looked at a man without knowing myself his superior. Captain. Well, you shall be made to see your superior for once, so that you never shall forget it. Laura. That will be interesting. Nurse (enters). Supper is ready. Will you come in, Ma'am ? Laura. Yes, directly. Captain lingers ; sits down in an arm chair by the table. Laura. Won't you come in to supper ? Captain. No thanks, I don't want anything. Laura. What! Are you annoyed ? Captain. No, but I am not hungry. Laura. Come, or they will question me in a way that is unnecessary. . . Be good now. . . You won't; then stay there. Goes. Nurse. Mr Adolf! What is all this about ? Captain. I don't know what it is. Can you explain to me how it is that a grown man can be treated as if he were a child ? Nurse. I don't understand it, but it must be because you are s all women's children, every man of you, great and small. . . . Captain. But no women are born of men. Yes, but I am Bertha's father. Tell me, Margret, don't you believe it? Don't you? Nurse. Lord, how childish you are. Of course you are your own child's father. Come and eat now, and don't sit there and brood. There, there, come now. Captain. Get out, woman. To hell with the witches. (Goes to the private door) Svard, Svard! Enter Orderly. Orderly. Yes, Captain. Captain. Let them put the horses in the covered sleigh at once. Nurse. Captain, just listen! chapter Section 4Captain. Out woman ! At once ! Nurse. Lord preserve us, what will come of all this. Captain puts on his cap and prepares to go out. Captain. Don't expect me home before midnight. Nurse. Jesus help us, what will be the end of this! , x .'' ACT II ...
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