I mean we don’t need it this evening, for father will be in a good humour at any rate. It is best to keep the letting of the room for another time.
Gina.
[Looks across at her.] You like having some good news to tell father when he comes home in the evening?
Hedvig.
Yes; for then things are pleasanter somehow.
Gina.
[Thinking to herself.] Yes, yes, there’s something in that.
[Old Ekdal comes in again and is going out by the foremost door to the left.
Gina.
[Half turning in her chair.] Do you want something out of the kitchen, grandfather?