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.