[The sound dies away in the distance.

Ella Rentheim.

[After a moment.] Now the bells are out of hearing.

Mrs. Borkman.

They sounded like funeral bells.

Borkman.

[With a dry suppressed laugh.] Oho—it is not for me they are ringing to-night!

Mrs. Borkman.

No, but for me—and for him who has gone from me.

Ella Rentheim.