Rörlund.

Who has spoken to you of such things?

Dina.

No one; they never speak. Why don’t they? They all handle me as gingerly as though I would fall to pieces, if——Oh, how I hate all this good-heartedness!

Rörlund.

My dear Dina, I can very well understand that you must feel oppressed here, but——

Dina.

Oh, if I could only go far away! I could get on well enough by myself, if only I lived among people that weren’t so—so——

Rörlund.

So what?