The Wild Duck Creative

(HJALMAR has just returned from a business trip, he has been gone for about a week and looks very perplexed and disgruntled. HEDVIG is waiting in the studio for her father to return, she is reading on the sofa. GINA is in the bedroom, she is contemplating over GREGGERS stay in their spare bedroom, wondering his intent. HJALMAR is seen walking up to his front door, he is wearing a large coat and a hat and is carrying a breif case. When HEDVIG hears a start at the door she sets down her book, runs to the door and greats her father.)
HEDVIG: Father, I've missed you so. (throwing her arms around him) You've been gone for much to long.
HJALMAR: Oh dear daughter, I've missed you as well, I promise we will spend the most wonderful time together, tomorrow we shall have lunch. Then, we will occupy ourselves with the wild duck. Do not cry, are you sad as all that.
HEDVIG: It was just that, as you were gone, I had an awful dream that you were in God's grace. I dreamed that I could not longer hug you, or smell you, or listen to you speak.
HJALMAR: Hedvig, do not let dreams perplex you, for you I will always be here (HJALMAR kisses HEDVIG on the forehead) Now, go and grab your father a beer. (HEDVIG goes into the kitchen and GINA enters the studio)
GINA: Hjalmar! Have you just come in or have you been avoiding my acquaitance for some time?
HJALMAR: No, my wife, I have been home not even five minutes.
GINA: You have just come home and already you look distressed. What is it that perplexes you?
HJALMAR: Our daughter, she has been having morbid dreams about my life, I wonder if they might mean something.
GINA: I'm sure they are nothing more then the confusion of dreams.
(HEDVIG enters the studio carrying a bottle of beer)
HJALMAR: (whispering) let's not speak of this much more in her presence, I am afraid it will upset her further.