[Firmly.] Come right out with it, Ekdal. What has he been saying about me?
Hialmar.
Is it true—can it be true that—that there was an—an understanding between you and Mr. Werle, while you were in service there?
Gina.
That’s not true. Not at that time. Mr. Werle did come after me, that’s a fact. And his wife thought there was something in it, and then she made such a hocus-pocus and hurly-burly, and she hustled me and bustled me about so, that I left her service.
Hialmar.
But afterwards, then?
Gina.
Well, then I went home. And mother—well, she wasn’t the woman you took her for, Ekdal; she kept on worrying and worrying at me about one thing and another—for Mr. Werle was a widower by that time.
Hialmar.