Manders.
You call it “cowardice” to do your plain duty? Have you forgotten that a son ought to love and honour his father and mother?
Mrs. Alving.
Do not let us talk in such general terms. Let us ask: Ought Oswald to love and honour Chamberlain Alving?
Manders.
Is there no voice in your mother’s heart that forbids you to destroy your son’s ideals?
Mrs. Alving.
But what about the truth?
Manders.
But what about the ideals?