[Looking down.] Would you be content to have only half of me?

Borgheim.

No. You must be utterly and entirely mine.

Asta.

[Looks at him, and says quietly.] Then I cannot.

Borgheim.

Good-bye then, Miss Asta.

[He is on the point of going. Allmers comes up from the left at the back. Borgheim stops.

Allmers.

[The moment he has reached the top of the steps, points, and says in a low voice.] Is Rita in there—in the summer-house?