Allmers.
[With more life.] Oh, you toiled too, in your way, I can assure you—[smiling]—my dear, faithful—Eyolf.
Asta.
Oh—you mustn’t remind me of that stupid nonsense about the name.
Allmers.
Well, if you had been a boy, you would have been called Eyolf.
Asta.
Yes, if! But when you began to go to college——. [Smiling involuntarily.] I wonder how you could be so childish.
Allmers.
Was it I that was childish?