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.]