Eh? Oh never mind, that’s nothing. [Puts his stick away in a corner.] This work will keep me going a long time, Gina. [Opens one of the sliding-doors in the back wall a little.] Hush! [Peeps into the room for a moment, then pushes the door carefully to again.] Hee-hee! They’re fast asleep, all the lot of them. And she’s gone into the basket herself. Hee-hee!
Hedvig.
Are you sure she isn’t cold in that basket, grandfather?
Ekdal.
Not a bit of it! Cold? With all that straw? [Goes towards the farther door on the left.] There are matches in here, I suppose.
Gina.
The matches is on the drawers.
[Ekdal goes into his room.
Hedvig.
It’s nice that grandfather has got all that copying.