Borkman.
[With a short dry laugh.] My memory? Oh, indeed! It sounds almost as if I were dead already.
Mrs. Borkman.
[With emphasis.] And so you are.
Borkman.
[Slowly.] Yes, perhaps you are right. [Firing up.] But no, no! Not yet! I have been close to the verge of death. But now I have awakened. I have come to myself. A whole life lies before me yet. I can see it awaiting me, radiant and quickening. And you—you shall see it too.
Mrs. Borkman.
[Raising her hand.] Never dream of life again! Lie quiet where you are.
Ella Rentheim.
[Shocked.] Gunhild! Gunhild, how can you——!