Manders.
Those without I shall help you to lay. After all the terrible things I have heard from you today, I cannot in conscience permit an unprotected girl to remain in your house.
Mrs. Alving.
Don't you think the best plan would be to get her provided for?—I mean, by a good marriage.
Manders.
No doubt. I think it would be desirable for her in every respect. Regina is now at the age when
Of course I don't know much about these things, butMrs. Alving.
Regina matured very early.
Manders.
Yes, I thought so. I have an impression that she was remarkably well developed, physically, when I prepared her for confirmation. But in the meantime, she ought to be at home, under her father's eye
Ah! but Engstrand is not That he—that he—could so hide the truth from me! [A knock at the door into the hall.Mrs. Alving.
Who can this be? Come in!
Engstrand.
[In his Sunday clothes, in the doorway.] I humbly beg your pardon, but
Manders.
Aha! H'm