TEKLA. What's his name?
ADOLPH. Sjöberg.
TEKLA. What did he have to say?
ADOLPH. He said—well—among other things he said—that I am on the verge of epilepsy—
TEKLA. Among other things? What more did he say?
ADOLPH. Something very unpleasant.
TEKLA. Tell me!
ADOLPH. He forbade us to live as man and wife for a while.
TEKLA. Oh, that's it! Didn't I just guess it! They want to separate us! That's what I have understood a long time!
ADOLPH. You can't have understood, because there was nothing to understand.