Oh, they look after it, and build places for it, and so on.
Gregers.
I see; for no doubt the wild duck is by far the most distinguished inhabitant of the garret?
Hedvig.
Yes, indeed she is; for she is a real wild fowl, you know. And then she is so much to be pitied; she has no one to care for, poor thing.
Gregers.
She has no family, as the rabbits have——
Hedvig.
No. The hens too, many of them, were chickens together; but she has been taken right away from all her friends. And then there is so much that is strange about the wild duck. Nobody knows her, and nobody knows where she came from either.
Gregers.