Mathilde. No, you mustn't do that.
Axel. Are they not going to put up here?
Laura. Yes, I thought—if you are willing—in your room.
Axel. So that is what it is to be—I am to go away and they are to take my place.
Mathilde. Take my room, and I will move into Laura's. I will easily arrange that. (Goes out.)
Axel. Why all this beating about the bush? It is quite natural that you should want to see them, and equally natural that I should remove myself when they come; only you should have broken it to me—a little more considerately. Because I suppose they are coming now to take you with them—and, even if it means nothing to you to put an end to everything like this, at all events you ought to know what it means to me!
Laura. I did not know till this moment that they were coming.
Axel. But it must be your letters that have brought them here—your complaints—
Laura. I have made no complaints.
Axel. You have only told them how matters stand here.