You mustn’t say that.

Hedvig.

Oh yes, for you know it is only a garret.

Gregers.

[Looks fixedly at her.] Are you so sure of that?

Hedvig.

[Astonished.] That it’s a garret?

Gregers.

Are you quite certain of it?

[Hedvig is silent, and looks at him open-mouthed. Gina comes in from the kitchen with the table things.