Rebecca.

My dear Rector, I really haven’t thought about it, one way or the other. I have got so used to the place now, that I feel almost as if I belonged to it.

Kroll.

Why, of course you belong to it.

Rebecca.

And so long as Mr. Rosmer finds that I am of any use or comfort to him—why, so long, I suppose, I shall stay here.

Kroll.

[Looks at her with emotion.] Do you know,—it is really fine for a woman to sacrifice her whole youth to others as you have done.

Rebecca.

Oh, what else should I have had to live for?