[_Goes out by the passage door._ GINA. You shouldn’t go out with him, Ekdal. RELLING. No, don’t you do it. Stay where you are. HIALMAR. [_Gets his hat and overcoat._] Oh, nonsense! When a friend of my youth feels impelled to open his mind to me in private—— RELLING. But devil take it—don’t you see that the fellow’s mad, cracked, demented! GINA. There, what did I tell you! His mother before him had crazy fits like that sometimes. HIALMAR. The more need for a friend’s watchful eye. [_To GINA._] Be sure you have dinner ready in good time. Good-bye for the present. [_Goes out by the passage door._ RELLING. It’s a thousand pities the fellow didn’t go to hell through one of the Höidal mines. GINA. Good Lord! what makes you say that? RELLING. [_Muttering._] Oh, I have my own reasons. GINA. Do you think young Werle is really mad? RELLING. No, worse luck; he’s no madder than most other people. But one disease he has certainly got in his system. GINA. What is it that’s the matter with him? RELLING. Well, I'll tell you, Mrs. Ekdal. He is suffering from an acute attack of integrity. GINA. Integrity? HEDVIG. Is that a kind of disease? RELLING. Yes, it’s a national disease; but it only appears sporadically. [_Nods to GINA._] Thanks for your hospitality. [_He goes out by the passage door._ GINA. [_Moving restlessly to and fro._] Ugh, that Gregers Werle—he was always a wretched creature. HEDVIG. [_Standing by the table, and looking searchingly at her._] I think all this is very strange. ----- Footnote 16: _A New and Universal History of the Cities of London and Westminster_, by Walter Harrison. London, 1775, folio. Footnote 17: Gregers here uses the old-fashioned expression “havsens bund,” while Hedvig would have him use the more commonplace “havets bund” or “havbunden.” Footnote 18: By Norwegian law, before a widower can marry again, a certain proportion of his property must be settled on his children by his former marriage. ACT FOURTH.