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 Gregers.

[Looking around him.] So these are your quarters, Hialmar—this is your home.

Hialmar.

This is the studio, as you see

Gina.

But it's the largest of our rooms, so we generally sit here.

Hialmar.

We used to live in a better place; but this flat has one great advantage: there are such capital outer rooms

Gina.

And we have a room on the other side of the passage that we can let.

Gregers, [To Hialmar.] Ah—so you have lodgers too?

Hialmar.

No, not yet. They're not so easy to find, you see; you have to keep your eyes open. (To Hedvig.] What about that beer, eh?

[Hedvig nods and goes out into the kitchen.

Gregers. So that is your daughter?

Hialmar.

Yes, that is Hedvig.

Gregers. And she is your only child?