Rosmer.

And so it swept the unhappy Beata into the mill race.

Rebecca.

Yes; for it was a life-and-death struggle between Beata and me at that time.

Rosmer.

Assuredly you were the strongest at Rosmersholm. Stronger than Beata and I together.

Rebecca.

I judged you rightly in so far that I was sure I could never reach you until you were a free man, both in circumstances—and in spirit.

Rosmer.

But I don’t understand you, Rebecca. You—yourself—your whole conduct is an insoluble riddle to me. I am free now—both in spirit and in circumstances. You have reached the very goal you aimed at from the first. And yet——