Mrs. Alving.
[Snatches at it.] Give me the box, Oswald!
Oswald.
Not yet, mother.
[He hides the box again in his pocket.
Mrs. Alving.
I shall never survive this!
Oswald.
It must be survived. Now if I’d had Regina here, I should have told her how things stood with me—and begged her to come to the rescue at the last. She would have done it. I know she would.
Mrs. Alving.