Ugh! Bah! I feel I should like to spit upon the fellow that answers to such a name. But when a man is once for all doomed to be Gregers—Werle in this world, as I am——

Hialmar.

[Laughs.] Ha ha! If you weren’t Gregers Werle, what would you like to be?

Gregers.

If I could choose, I should like best to be a clever dog.

Gina.

A dog!

Hedvig.

[Involuntarily.] Oh no!

Gregers.