Why half-dead?
Ballested.
She has strayed in from the sea, and can’t find her way out again. So she lies here dying by inches in the brackish water, you understand.
Lyngstrand.
Oh, that is the idea?
Ballested.
It was the lady of this house that suggested it to me.
Lyngstrand.
What will you call the picture when it is finished?
Ballested.