That is certainly quite a new idea to me.
Werle.
Listen, Gregers: there are many things that stand between us; but we are father and son after all. We ought surely to be able to come to some sort of understanding with each other.
Gregers.
Outwardly, you mean, of course?
Werle.
Well, even that would be something. Think it over, Gregers. Don’t you think it ought to be possible? Eh?
Gregers.
[Looking at him coldly.] There is something behind all this.
Werle.