Yes, but how about the woman, Gregers? I fear she won’t accept the situation much longer; and even if she did—even if, out of attachment to me, she were to take her chance of gossip and scandal and all that——? Do you think, Gregers—you with your strong sense of justice——

Gregers.

[Interrupts him.] Tell me in one word: are you thinking of marrying her?

Werle.

Suppose I were thinking of it? What then?

Gregers.

That’s what I say: what then?

Werle.

Should you be inflexibly opposed to it?[it?]

Gregers.