[Goes into the sitting-room and draws the door to after her.
Gregers.
[After a short silence.] I never dreamed that this would be the end of it. Do you really feel it a necessity to leave house and home?
Hialmar.
[Wanders about restlessly.] What would you have me do?—I am not fitted to bear unhappiness, Gregers. I must feel secure and at peace in my surroundings.
Gregers.
But can you not feel that here? Just try it. I should have thought you had firm ground to build upon now—if only you start afresh. And remember, you have your invention to live for.
Hialmar.
Oh don’t talk about my invention. It’s perhaps still in the dim distance.
Gregers.