Curtain.
The Lady from the Sea.
When Ibsen ended “The Lady from the Sea” by making Mrs. Wangel give up her idea of eloping with “The Stranger” and decide to remain with her husband and her step-children, many people must have felt that there was a want of finality about the arrangement. Having discussed so exhaustively with Dr. Wangel the advisability of leaving him, she could hardly be expected to give up the project permanently. The play is therefore one which emphatically calls for a sequel.
THE LADY ON THE SEA.
Scene I.—Beside the pond in the Wangels’ garden. It is a malarious evening in September. Hilda and Boletta, Mrs. Wangel’s step-daughters, are, as usual, failing to catch the carp which are said to haunt the pond.
Boletta.
Do you think she [nodding towards Mrs. Wangel, who prowls to and fro on the damp lawn with a shawl over her head] is any better?