The Stranger. You will not!
Ellida (clinging to WANGEL). I shall never go away from you after this.
The Stranger. So it is over?
Ellida. Yes. Over for all time.
The Stranger. I see. There is something here stronger than my will.
Ellida. Your will has not a shadow of power over me any longer. To me you are as one dead—who has come home from the sea, and who returns to it again. I no longer dread you. And I am no longer drawn to you.
The Stranger. Goodbye, Mrs. Wangel! (He swings himself over the fence.) Henceforth, you are nothing but a shipwreck in my life that I have tided over. (He goes out.)
Wangel (looks at her for a while). Ellida, your mind is like the sea—it has ebb and flow. Whence came the change?
Ellida. Ah! don't you understand that the change came—was bound to come when I could choose in freedom?
Wangel. And the unknown?—It no longer lures you?