Ella Rentheim.
And so it was.
Mrs. Borkman.
Erhart does not believe that for a moment, now.
Ella Rentheim.
What have you put in his head?
Mrs. Borkman.
He thinks, what is the truth, that you are ashamed of us—that you despise us. And do you pretend that you don’t? Were you not once planning to take him quite away from me? Think, Ella; you cannot have forgotten.
Ella Rentheim.
[With a gesture of negation.] That was at the height of the scandal—when the case was before the courts. I have no such designs now.