[Slightly taken aback.] Yes, I should hope so!

Ella Rentheim.

Is it not rather what you demand of him?

Mrs. Borkman.

[Curtly.] Erhart and I always make the same demands upon ourselves.

Ella Rentheim.

[Sadly and slowly.] You are so very certain of your boy, then, Gunhild?

Mrs. Borkman.

[With, veiled triumph.] Yes, that I am—thank Heaven. You may be sure of that!

Ella Rentheim.