[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.