REUMANN
Why not pay a visit to a young friend when one happens to be near the place where he is living? I can see nothing peculiar in that.
MRS. WEGRAT
Perhaps you are right. Perhaps I might have looked at the matter in the same way not long ago. But now, in the face of.... No, Doctor, I am not going to be sentimental.
REUMANN
I don't object to sentiment, but to nonsense.
MRS. WEGRAT (smiling)
Thank you.—However, I have occasion to think of many different things. And it is no reason for taking it too seriously, my dear friend. You know, of course, that I told you everything merely that I might have a kind and sensible man with whom to discuss the past—and not at all to be absolved of any guilt.
REUMANN
To give happiness is more than being free of guilt. And as this has been granted you, it is clear that you have made full atonement—if you'll pardon the use of such a preposterously extravagant term.