Krogstad.
[Clenching his hands together.] So that was it? And all this—for the sake of money!
Mrs. Linden.
You ought not to forget that I had a helpless mother and two little brothers. We could not wait for you, Nils, as your prospects then stood.
Krogstad.
Perhaps not; but you had no right to cast me off for the sake of others, whoever the others might be.
Mrs. Linden.
I don’t know. I have often asked myself whether I had the right.
Krogstad.
[More softly.] When I had lost you, I seemed to have no firm ground left under my feet. Look at me now. I am a shipwrecked man clinging to a spar.