Gregers.
Is it so long as that?
Gina.
[Becomes attentive; looks at him.] Yes, it is indeed.
Hialmar.
Yes, so it is. Fifteen years all but a few months. [Changing his tone.] They must have been long years for you, up at the works, Gregers.
Gregers.
They seemed long while I was living them; now they are over, I hardly know how the time has gone.
[Old Ekdal comes from his room without his pipe, but with his old-fashioned uniform cap on his head; his gait is somewhat unsteady.
Ekdal.