LINDKVIST. Are you that sort of creature?
ELIS. Yes.
LINDKVIST [Rises, walks about waving his blue paper.] That's too bad—too bad.—Well, then I must start from the other end.—A revengeful person has threatened to take legal steps against your mother.
ELIS. What do you say?
LINDKVIST. Go to see the Governor.
ELIS. No.
LINDKVIST [Taking Elis by the shoulders]. Then you are the most miserable being that I have ever met in all my experience.—And now I shall go and see your mother.
ELIS. No, no. Don't go to her.
LINDKVIST. Will you go to see the Governor then?
ELIS. Yes.