Hialmar.
Really? Have you not? Oh no, out there in the wilds——
Gregers.
So you have invented something, have you?
Hialmar.
It is not quite completed yet; but I am working at it. You can easily imagine that when I resolved to devote myself to photography, it wasn’t simply with the idea of taking likenesses of all sorts of commonplace people.
Gregers.
No; your wife was saying the same thing just now.
Hialmar.
I swore that if I consecrated my powers to this handicraft, I would so exalt it that it should become both an art and a science. And to that end I determined to make this great invention.[invention.]