Mrs. Borkman.

You are right there.

Ella Rentheim.

[With a painful smile.] A dead man and two shadows—that is what the cold has made of us.

Mrs. Borkman.

Yes, the coldness of heart.—And now I think we two may hold out our hands to each other, Ella.

Ella Rentheim.

I think we may, now.

Mrs. Borkman.

We twin sisters—over him we have both loved.