Yes; but it sounds so strange to me when other people speak of the depths of the sea.

Gregers.

Why so? Tell me why?

Hedvig.

No, I won’t; it’s so stupid.

Gregers.

Oh no, I am sure it’s not. Do tell me why you smiled.

Hedvig.

Well, this is the reason: whenever I come to realise suddenly—in a flash—what is in there, it always seems to me that the whole room and everything in it should be called “the depths of the sea.”—But that is so stupid.

Gregers.