Adolf. Do you forget that you're my wife?
Thekla [getting up]. Do you forget that you're my husband?
Adolf [following her example]. That's just the difference between one sex and the other.
Thekla. That's right, speak in that tone—you have never loved me.
[She goes past him to the right up to the fireplace.]
Adolf. Really?
Thekla. No, for loving means giving.
Adolf. For a man to love means giving, for a woman to love means taking—and I've given, given, given.
Thekla. Oh, to be sure, you've given a fine lot, haven't you?
Adolf. Everything.