[Rising.] What do you mean by that?

Oswald.

I cannot go on bearing all this anguish of soul alone.

Mrs. Alving.

Have you not your mother to share it with you?

Oswald.

Yes; that’s what I thought; and so I came home to you. But that will not do. I see it won’t do. I cannot endure my life here.

Mrs. Alving.

Oswald!

Oswald.