Yes, all this is now within your reach, if only you will.
Boletta.
And you will help me to this unspeakable happiness. Oh—but tell me—can I accept so great a gift from a stranger?
Arnholm.
You can quite well accept it from me, Boletta. From me you may accept anything.
Boletta.
[Seizes his hands.] Yes, I really think I may. I don’t know how it is, but——[With an outburst of emotion.] Oh—I could both laugh and cry for joy!—for sheer happiness! Oh—to think that I shall learn what life is, after all; I was beginning to be so afraid that it would slip away from me.
Arnholm.
You need not be afraid of that, dear Boletta. But now you must tell me quite frankly whether there is anything—any tie that binds you here?
Boletta.