[Clasping her forehead.]
Yes! That too! Just to hear that I came home again!
[Exit.]
CARL.
She acts very strangely!
[Sings]
A bold and saucy sea-gull
Sweeps round, as if possessed—
CLARA. [Reënters.]
The last thing is done! Father's supper is on the fire! As I closed the kitchen door behind me, I thought to myself: You are never to enter there again! I shuddered in my very soul! Thus I shall go out of the room too, thus out of the house, thus out of the world!
CARL. [Sings; he continues to walk back and forth; CLARA remains in the background.]