Boletta.
Oh no, I’m sorry to say. And then father has so little time to think about me and my future—and not much inclination either. He puts things of that sort aside as much as he can; he is so entirely taken up with Ellida——
Arnholm.
With whom——? How——?
Boletta.
I mean that he and my stepmother——[Breaking off.] Father and mother lead a life of their own, you see.
Arnholm.
Well, so much the more reason for you to see about getting away.
Boletta.
Yes, but at the same time I don’t feel as if I had the right to go away—to leave father.