[Smiling to Hialmar.] His pipe!

Hialmar.

Oh yes yes, Gina; let him alone—the poor shipwrecked old man.—Yes, these improvements—we had better get them out of hand to-morrow.

Gina.

You’ll hardly have time to-morrow, Ekdal.

Hedvig.

[Interposing.] Oh yes he will, mother!

Gina.

——for remember them prints that has to be retouched; they’ve sent for them time after time.

Hialmar.