[Almost crying.] You might have let me alone for what I was, then.

Relling.

[To Gregers.] Is it rude to ask what you really want in this house?

Gregers.

To lay the foundations of a true marriage.

Relling.

So you don’t think Ekdal’s marriage is good enough as it is?

Gregers.

No doubt it is as good a marriage as most others, worse luck. But a true marriage it has yet to become.

Hialmar.