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ACT SECOND.
The same room. The mist still lies heavy over the landscape.
Manders and Mrs. Alving enter from the dining-room.
Mrs. Alving.
[Still in the doorway.] Velbekomme,[1] Mr. Manders. [Turns back towards the dining-room.] Aren't you coming too, Oswald?
Oswald.
[From within.] No, thank you. I think I shall go out a little.
Mrs. Alving.
Yes, do. The weather seems a little brighter now. [She shuts the dining-room door, goes to the hall door, and calls:] Regina!
Regina.
[Outside.] Yes, Mrs. Alving?
Mrs. Alving.
Go down to the laundry, and help with the garlands.
1 A phrase equivalent to the German Prosit die Mahlzeit—"May good digestion wait on appetite."