ADOLPH. I don't know why, but this place has suddenly become offensive to me. If you feel like it, we might return home—this evening!
TEKLA. What kind of notion is that? I have barely arrived and I don't feel like starting on another trip.
ADOLPH. But I want to.
TEKLA. Well, what's that to me?—You can go!
ADOLPH. But I demand that you take the next boat with me!
TEKLA. Demand?—What are you talking about?
ADOLPH. Do you realise that you are my wife?
TEKLA. Do you realise that you are my husband?
ADOLPH. Well, there's a difference between those two things.
TEKLA. Oh, that's the way you are talking now!—You have never loved me!