Rosmer.
To have done with it?
Rebecca.
Rosmersholm has broken me.
Rosmer.
[His attention aroused.] Do you say that?
Rebecca.
Broken me utterly and hopelessly.—I had a free and fearless will when I came here. Now I have bent my neck under a strange law.—From this day forth, I feel as if I had no courage for anything in the world.
Rosmer.
Why not? What is the law that you say you have——?