Ella Rentheim.

[Smiling sadly.] Not yet, Erhart.

Erhart.

[To Mrs. Borkman.] Mother—I beg and implore you—let me go!

Mrs. Borkman.

[Looks hardly at him.] Away from your mother? So that is what you want to do?

Erhart.

Of course I’ll come out again—to-morrow perhaps.

Mrs. Borkman.

[With passionate emotion.] You want to go away from me! To be with those strange people! With—with—no, I will not even think of it!