But would you have married me all the same?
Hialmar.
How can you dream that I would?
Gina.
That’s just why I didn’t dare tell you anything, then. For I'd come to care for you so much, you see; and I couldn’t go and make myself utterly miserable——
Hialmar.
[Walks about.] And this is my Hedvig’s mother. And to know that all I see before me—[Kicks at a chair.]—all that I call my home—I owe to a favoured predecessor! Oh that scoundrel Werle!
Gina.
Do you repent of the fourteen—the fifteen years as we’ve lived together?
Hialmar.