Selfish? How? No, that’s just your mistake! I am not deeply enough interested to be selfish—interested in this particular matter, I mean. I really don’t believe—
William.
I know better. You don’t suppose you can teach me how to understand this girl? Once for all, it is so. Depend upon it—she has that sort of feeling for me, which—well, I can’t alter it. You needn’t think me conceited—But, you see, what’s to become of her, if I should go?
Robert.
H’m, you really ask yourself—that—seriously—
William.
Most seriously—I do—indeed.
Robert.
Just oblige me by answering this one question first. If you were to marry, what would Ida become then?
William.