Borkman.

And runs over her father.

Foldal.

[Happily.] Oh, pooh! What does it matter about me, if only the child——! Well, so I am too late, then, after all. I must just go home again and comfort her mother. I left her crying in the kitchen.

Borkman.

Crying?

Foldal.

[Smiling.] Yes, would you believe it, she was crying her eyes out when I came away.

Borkman.

And you are laughing, Vilhelm?