Hialmar.

[Vehemently.] How can I live here, to be stabbed to the heart every hour of the day?

Gina.

God forgive you for thinking such vile things of me.

Hialmar.

Prove——!

Gina.

I think it’s you as has got to prove.

Hialmar.

After a past like yours? There are certain claims—I may almost call them claims of the ideal——