The action takes place at Mrs Alving's house on one of the larger
fjords of Western Norway.) 

GHOSTS 

ACT I 

(SCENE.--A large room looking upon a garden door in the left-hand
wall, and two in the right.  In the middle of the room, a round
table with chairs set about it, and books, magazines and
newspapers upon it.  In the foreground on the left, a window, by
which is a small sofa with a work-table in front of it.  At the
back the room opens into a conservatory rather smaller than the
room.  From the right-hand side of this, a door leads to the
garden.  Through the large panes of glass that form the outer wall
of the conservatory, a gloomy fjord landscape can be discerned,
half-obscured by steady rain. 

ENGSTRAND is standing close to the garden door.  His left leg