I will have it settled, I say! And to-morrow too—not a day later!
[Terrified.] If there's nothing else for it, I am quite willing to break off the engagement.
[Angrily.] Break it off. Are you mad? Would you think of breaking it off?
[Distracted.] Yes, if necessary. For I must—I must stay here with you! I can't leave you! That is utterly—utterly impossible!
[With a sudden outburst.] But deuce take it—how about Ragnar then! It's Ragnar that I—
[Looks at him with terrified eyes.] It is chiefly on Ragnar's account, that—that you—?
[Collecting himself.] No, no, of course not! You don't understand me either. [Gently and softly.] Of course it is you I want to keep.—you above everything, Kaia. But for that very reason, you must prevent Ragnar, too, from throwing up his situation. There, there,—now go home.
Yes, yes—good-night, then.
Good night. [As she is going.] Oh, stop a moment! Are Ragnar's drawings in there?
I did not see him take them with him.