MICH. I don’t understand you. Is anything discovered?
AUDR. What does that matter? Oh, don’t hate me. If you say one unkind word to me I shall kill myself. Read the letter which came here to me just now.
(He takes the letter wonderingly.)
MICH. Whom did it come from?
AUDR. My husband.
MICH. Your husband? (She nods.) Your husband! He is alive?
(She nods.)
AUDR. (with a laugh). Didn’t I tell you I should ruin you body and soul? (He stands overwhelmed.) Why do you stand there? Why don’t you do something? (Laughing at him.) I say, ghostly father, we make a pretty pair, you and I, don’t we? What shall we do? Confess in white sheets and candles together, you and I? Why don’t you do something—(Laughing at him.) And you stand there like a stone saint. (Comes up to him.) Kill me and have done with me!
MICH. You said your husband died after two years.
AUDR. I said I never saw him again—alive. I thought then that I never should.