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——?