Gregers.
[Looking at him coldly.] There is something behind all this.
Werle. How so?
Gregers. You want to make use of me in some way.
Werle.
In such a close relationship as ours, the one can always be useful to the other.
Gregers.
Yes, so people say.
Werle.
I want very much to have you at home with me for a time. I am a lonely man Gregers; I have always felt lonely, all my life through; but most of all now that I am getting up in years. I feel the need of some one about me
Gregers.
You have Mrs. Sörby.
Werle.
Yes, I have her; and she has become, I may say, almost indispensable to me. She is lively and even-tempered; she brightens up the house; and that is a very great thing for me.
Gregers.
Well then, you have everything just as you wish it.
