You may well say so. Then this is what he has come to!

[Mrs. Alving looks at him silently.

Manders.

[Walking up and down.] He called himself the Prodigal Son. Alas! alas!

[Mrs. Alving continues looking at him.

Manders.

And what do you say to all this?

Mrs. Alving.

I say that Oswald was right in every word.

Manders.