RITA. That you will follow your sister.
ALLMERS. Has Asta told you anything?
RITA. No. But you said yourself it was for Asta's sake that—that we came together.
ALLMERS. Yes, but you, you yourself, have bound me to you—by our life together.
RITA. Oh, in your eyes I am not—I am not—entrancingly beautiful any more.
ALLMERS. The law of change may perhaps keep us together, none the less.
RITA. [Nodding slowly.] There is a change in me now—I feel the anguish of it.
ALLMERS. Anguish?
RITA. Yes, for change, too, is a sort of birth.
ALLMERS. It is—or a resurrection. Transition to a higher life.