But confess now—you want to get married!
[Softly.] Ragnar and I have been engaged for four or five years, and so—
And so you think it time there were an end of it. Is not that so?
Ragnar and Uncle say I must. So I suppose I shall have to give in.
[More gently.] Kaia, don't you really care a little bit for Ragnar, too?
I cared very much for Ragnar once—before I came here to you.
But you don't now? Not in the least?
[Passionately, clasping hands and holding them out towards him.] Oh, you know very well there is only one person I care for now! I shall never care for any one else.
Yes, you say that. And yet you go away from me—leave me alone here with everything on my hands.
But could I not stay with you, even if Ragnar—?