Borkman.
[After a short pause.] Take him, Ella, if you can win him.
Ella Rentheim.
[With animation.] Do you give your consent? Can you?
Borkman.
[Gloomily.] Yes. And it is no great sacrifice either. For in any case he is not mine.
Ella Rentheim.
Thank you, thank you all the same for the sacrifice! But I have one thing more to beg of you—a great thing for me, Borkman.
Borkman.
Well, what is it?