But, all the same—how could he! Go and marry, I mean—when he could have kept you with him, alone!

Asta.

[Looking straight in front of her.] He was subject to the law of change, I suppose.

Borgheim.

The law of change?

Asta.

So Alfred calls it.

Borgheim.

Pooh—what a stupid law that must be! I don’t believe a bit in that law.

Asta.