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What! Seen the Rat-Wife! Oh, you're only making a fool of me!

No; it's quite true. I saw her yesterday.

Where did you see her?

I saw her on the road, outside the town.

I saw her, too, somewhere up in the country.

[Who is sitting on the sofa.] Perhaps it will be our turn to see her next, Eyolf.

Auntie, isn't it strange that she should be called the Rat-Wife?

Oh, people just give her that name because she wanders round the country driving away all the rats.

I have heard that her real name is Varg.

Varg! That means a wolf, doesn't it?