ACT IV.
Same Scene. GREGERS enters, and finds GINA retouching photographs.
Gregers (pleasantly). HIALMAR not come in yet, after last night, I suppose?
Gina. Not he! He's been out on the loose all night with RELLING and MÖLVIK. Now he's snoring on their sofa.
Gregers (disappointed.) Dear!—dear!—when he ought to be yearning to wrestle in solitude and self-examination!
Gina (rudely). Self-examine your grandmother!
[She goes out; HEDVIG comes in.
Gregers (to Hedvig). Ah, I see you haven't found courage to settle the Wild Duck yet!
Hedvig. No—it seemed such a delightful idea at first. Now it strikes me as a trifle—well, Ibsenish.
Gregers (reprovingly). I thought you hadn't grown up quite unharmed in this house! But if you really had the true, joyous spirit of self-sacrifice, you'd have a shot at that Wild Duck, if you died for it!