Rita.

Not?

Allmers.

No. It was so strange. Both you and Eyolf seemed to have drifted far, far away from me—and Asta, too.

Rita.

Then what did you think of?

Allmers.

I did not think. I dragged myself along among the precipices—and rejoiced in the peace and luxury of death.

Rita.

[Springing up.] Oh, don’t use such words of that horror!