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.