[330] The Wild Duck, Act III.:
Gregers. Besides, if I’m to go on living, I must try and find some cure for my sick conscience.
Werle. It will never be well. Your conscience has been sickly from childhood. That’s an inheritance from your mother, Gregers—it is the only inheritance she left you....
Relling. But, deuce take it, don’t you see the fellow’s mad, cracked, demented!
Gina. There, you hear! His mother before him had mad fits like that sometimes.
[331] The Wild Duck, Act II.:
Hjalmar. She is in danger of losing her eyesight.
Gregers. Becoming blind?
Hjalmar. ... But the doctor has warned us. It’s coming, inexorably.
Gregers. What an awful misfortune! How do you account for it?