Mrs. Alving.
Regina, I have not been frank with you——
Regina.
No, that you haven’t indeed. If I’d known that Oswald was an invalid, why——And now, too, that it can never come to anything serious between us——I really can’t stop out here in the country and wear myself out nursing sick people.
Oswald.
Not even one who is so near to you?
Regina.
No, that I can’t. A poor girl must make the best of her young days, or she’ll be left out in the cold before she knows where she is. And I, too, have the joy of life in me, Mrs. Alving!
Mrs. Alving.
Unfortunately, you have. But don’t throw yourself away, Regina.