[With a smile.] Oh, you needn’t be afraid of me.

Manders.

[By the table.] You have sometimes such an exaggerated way of expressing yourself. Now, let me just collect all the documents, and put them in my bag. [He does so.] There, that’s all right. And now, good-bye for the present. Keep your eyes open when Oswald comes back. I shall look in again later.

[He takes his hat and goes out through the hall door.

Mrs. Alving.

[Sighs, looks for a moment out of the window, sets the room in order a little, and is about to go into the dining-room, but stops at the door with a half-suppressed cry.] Oswald, are you still at table?

Oswald.

[In the dining room.] I’m only finishing my cigar.

Mrs. Alving.

I thought you had gone for a little walk.