"Naturally the Governor has certain plans for you, having spent so much on your education, and you have your own aims and ambitions also, but if these should clash with your love for Thora, if they should tempt you away from her, you would be ready to give them up?"
"Certainly I would."
"You are sure of that?"
"I am sure of it--that is to say--it would be hard, no doubt--to abandon the aims and ambitions of one's whole life--but if they ever clashed, as you say, with my love for Thora, ever tempted me away from her--tempted me to leave her to go to England for example----"
"Or to any other country, or any other woman?"
"That is not possible, Magnus."
"But if it were possible?"
"I would not go," said Oscar.
"So that if I give Thora up and she consents to marry you, nothing and nobody will be allowed to disturb her happiness?"
"Nothing and nobody," said Oscar.