[Tentatively.] Is no change possible, Gunhild?
Mrs. Borkman.
[With a gesture of repulsion.] He has never made any movement towards a change.
Ella Rentheim.
Could you not make the first movement, then?
Mrs. Borkman.
[Indignantly.] I! After all the wrong he has done me! No, thank you! Rather let the wolf go on prowling up there.
Ella Rentheim.
This room is too hot for me. You must let me take off my things after all.
Mrs. Borkman.