I knew nothing of this. Why do you want to have me with you again?
Ella Rentheim.
Because I feel that I am losing you here.
Mrs. Borkman.
[Hardly.] You are losing him to me—yes. And that is just as it should be.
Ella Rentheim.
[Looking beseechingly at him.] Erhart, I cannot afford to lose you. For, I must tell you, I am a lonely—dying woman.
Erhart.
Dying——?
Ella Rentheim.