Borkman.
Indeed? I should have thought that when you want a thing, you want it to the end of your days.
Ella Rentheim.
So I do. But that need not mean for very long.
Borkman.
[Taken aback.] What do you mean by that?
Ella Rentheim.
I suppose you know I have been in bad health for many years past?
Borkman.
Have you?