You have never had eyes for the claims of the ideal, Relling.
Relling.
Rubbish, my boy!—But excuse me, Mr. Werle: how many—in round numbers—how many true marriages have you seen in the course of your life?
Gregers.
Scarcely a single one.
Relling.
Nor I either.
Gregers.
But I have seen innumerable marriages of the opposite kind. And it has been my fate to see at close quarters what ruin such a marriage can work in two human souls.
Hialmar.