Eyolf.
[Involuntarily, a little timidly.] Why did they have to——?
The Rat-Wife.
What?
Eyolf.
To bite it?
The Rat-Wife.
Why, because they couldn’t keep body and soul together on account of the rats and all the little rat-children, you see, young master.
Rita.
Ugh! Poor people! Have they so many of them?