Mrs. Alving.
[Looking steadily at him.] If I were what I ought to be, I should go to Oswald and say, “Listen, my boy: your father led a vicious life——”
Manders.
Merciful heavens——!
Mrs. Alving.
——and then I should tell him all I have told you—every word of it.
Manders.
You shock me unspeakably, Mrs. Alving.
Mrs. Alving.
Yes; I know that. I know that very well. I myself am shocked at the idea. [Goes away from the window.] I am such a coward.