exactly what you like. 

REGINA. Oh, indeed! 

ENGSTRAND. But there must be a petticoat in the house; that's as clear as daylight. For I want to have it a bit lively like in the evenings, with singing and dancing, and so on. You must remember they're weary wanderers on the ocean of life. [Nearer.] Now don't be a fool and stand in your own light, Regina. What's to become of you out here? Your mistress has given you a lot of learning; but what good is that to you? 

You're to look after the children at the new Orphanage, I hear. Is that the sort of thing for you, eh? Are you so dead set on wearing your life out for a pack of dirty brats? 

REGINA. No; if things go as I want them to--Well there's no 

saying--there's no saying. 

ENGSTRAND. What do you mean by "there's no saying"? 

REGINA. Never you mind.--How much money have you saved? 

ENGSTRAND. What with one thing and another, a matter of seven or eight hundred crowns. [A "krone" is equal to one shilling and three-halfpence.] 

REGINA. That's not so bad. 

ENGSTRAND. It's enough to make a start with, my girl. 

REGINA. Aren't you thinking of giving me any? 

ENGSTRAND. No, I'm blest if I am! 

REGINA. Not even of sending me a scrap of stuff for a new dress?ENGSTRAND. Come to town with me, my lass, and you'll soon get dresses enough.
REGINA. Pooh! I can do that on my own account, if I want to.
ENGSTRAND. No, a father's guiding hand is what you want, Regina. Now, I've got my eye on a capital house in Little Harbour Street. They don't want much ready-money; and it could be a sort of a Sailors' Home, you know.
REGINA. But I will not live with you! I have nothing whatever to do with you. Be off!
ENGSTRAND. You wouldn't stop long with me, my girl. No such luck! If you knew how to play your cards, such a fine figure of a girl as you've grown in the last year or two--
REGINA. Well?

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