[_A shot fired within the garret._ GREGERS. [_Starting up._] What’s that? GINA. Ugh! now they’re firing again! GREGERS. Have they firearms in there? HEDVIG. They are out shooting. GREGERS. What! [_At the door of the garret._] Are you shooting, Hialmar? HIALMAR. [_Inside the net._] Are you there? I didn’t know; I was so taken up——[_To HEDVIG._] Why did you not let us know? [_Comes into the studio._ GREGERS. Do you go shooting in the garret? HIALMAR. [_Showing a double-barrelled pistol._] Oh, only with this thing. GINA. Yes, you and grandfather will do yourselves a mischief some day with that there pigstol. HIALMAR. [_With irritation._] I believe I have told you that this kind of firearm is called a _pistol_. GINA. Oh, that doesn’t make it much better, that I can see. GREGERS. So you have become a sportsman too, Hialmar. HIALMAR. Only a little rabbit-shooting now and then. Mostly to please father, you understand. GINA. Men are strange beings; they must always have something to pervert theirselves with. HIALMAR. [_Snappishly._] Just so; we must always have something to _divert_ ourselves with. GINA. Yes, that’s just what I say. HIALMAR. H'm. [_To GREGERS._] You see the garret is fortunately so situated that no one can hear us shooting. [_Lays the pistol on the top shelf of the bookcase._] Don’t touch the pistol, Hedvig! One of the barrels is loaded; remember that. GREGERS. [_Looking through the net._] You have a fowling-piece too, I see. HIALMAR. That is father’s old gun. It’s of no use now; something has gone wrong with the lock. But it’s fun to have it all the same; for we can take it to pieces now and then, and clean and grease it, and screw it together again.—Of course, it’s mostly father that fiddle-faddles with all that sort of thing. HEDVIG. [_Beside GREGERS._] Now you can see the wild duck properly. GREGERS. I was just looking at her. One of her wings seems to me to droop a bit. HEDVIG. Well, no wonder; her wing was broken, you know. GREGERS. And she trails one foot a little. Isn’t that so? HIALMAR. Perhaps a very little bit.