"Gerrit, don't!"
"That I have always been kind to you ... that I have not neglected you?..."
"Oh, you're not going to die, Gerrit!... You will get better ... and you have always, always been kind!..."
"Line ... and all our children...."
"Don't, Gerrit!"
"Won't they think ... if I die ... that I had no business to die ... because I ought to have lived and been a father to them?..."
"But, Gerrit, you're not going to die!"
"I should like to go on living, Line ... for you, dear, and for the children. But I fear I'm very ill...."
"Will you see the doctor, Gerrit?..."
"No, no.... Stay like this, quietly, for a minute, on your husband's knees.... Line, Gerdy has become frightened of me. Tell me, Line, are you also frightened of your skeleton of a husband?"