Manders.
What do you mean by that?
Mrs. Alving.
[Drumming on the window-frame.] I ought never to have concealed the facts of Alving’s life. But at that time I dared not do anything else—I was afraid, partly on my own account. I was such a coward.
Manders.
A coward?
Mrs. Alving.
If people had come to know anything, they would have said—“Poor man! with a runaway wife, no wonder he kicks over the traces.”
Manders.
Such remarks might have been made with a certain show of right.