Hialmar.
Well, I am working! I am working as hard as I can!
Gina.
Then you’ll have that job off your hands, you see.
[She goes out to the kitchen with her basket.
[Hialmar sits for a time pencilling away at the photograph, in an indolent and listless manner.
Ekdal.
[Peeps in, looks round the studio, and says softly:] Are you busy?
Hialmar.
Yes I'm toiling at these wretched pictures——