Manders.
How can you compare such absolutely dissimilar cases? You had taken counsel with your own heart and with your natural advisers.
Mrs. Alving.
[Without looking at him.] I thought you understood where what you call my heart had strayed to at the time.
Manders.
[Distantly.] Had I understood anything of the kind, I should not have been a daily guest in your husband’s house.
Mrs. Alving.
At any rate, the fact remains that with myself I took no counsel whatever.
Manders.
Well then, with your nearest relatives—as your duty bade you—with your mother and your two aunts.