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Relling. Well, wherever you carry it, I advise you not to come dunning us with it here, so long as I am on the premises.

Gregers. And if I do so none the less?

Relling. Then you'll go head-foremost down the stairs; now I've warned you.

Hialmar. [Rising.] Oh, but Relling——!

Gregers. Yes, you may turn me out——

Gina. [Interposing between them.] We can't have that, Relling. But I must say, Mr. Werle, it ill becomes you to talk about vapours and taints, after all the mess you made with your stove. [A knock at the passage door.

Hedvig. Mother, there's somebody knocking.

Hialmar. There now, we're going to have a whole lot of people!

Gina. I'll go—— [Goes over and opens the door, starts, and draws back.] Oh—oh dear!

Werle, in a fur coat, advances one step into the room.