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Little Eyolf Act II · The Henrik Ibsen Library

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  Speaker 1: Act second of Little Aolf by Hanhik Gibsen, translated by
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  Speaker 1: William Arter. This is a LibriVox recording. All LibriVox recordings
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  Speaker 1: please visit LibriVox dot org. Act second a little narrow
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  Speaker 1: glend by the side of the fiord on Armis's property.
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  Speaker 1: On the left, lofty old trees overarch the spot down
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  Speaker 1: the slope. In the background, a brook comes sleeping and
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  Speaker 1: loses itself among the stones. On the margin of the wood.
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  Speaker 1: A path winds along by the brook side. To the right,
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  Speaker 1: there are only a few single trees between which the
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  Speaker 1: fiord is visible. In front is seen the corner of
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  Speaker 1: a boat shed with a boat drawn up under the
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  Speaker 1: old trees. On the left stands a table with a
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  Speaker 1: bench and one or two chairs, all made of thin
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  Speaker 1: birch staves. It is a heavy damp day with driving
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  Speaker 1: Mistress Alfred Orners, dressed as before, sits on the bench,
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  Speaker 1: leaning his arms on the table. His head lies before him.
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  Speaker 1: He gazes absently and immovably out over the water. Presently,
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  Speaker 1: Esther Almos comes down the wood path. She is carrying
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  Speaker 1: an open umbrella, goes quietly and cautiously up to him.
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  Speaker 2: You ought not to sit down here in this gloomy weather.
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  Speaker 1: Alfred almos nod slowly without answering, closing her umbrella.
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  Speaker 2: I have been searching for you such a long time.
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  Speaker 1: Without expression, thank you, moves a chair and seats herself
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  Speaker 1: close to him.
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  Speaker 2: Have you been sitting here long all the time?
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  Speaker 1: Does not answer at first.
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  Speaker 3: Presently, he says, no, I cannot grasp it. It seems
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  Speaker 3: so utterly impossible.
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  Speaker 1: Laying her hand compassionately on his arm, Poor Alfred, gazing at.
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  Speaker 3: Her, Is it really true, then, esther? Or have I
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  Speaker 3: gone mad? Or am I only dreaming? How if it
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  Speaker 3: were only a dream? Just think if I were to
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  Speaker 3: waken now, Oh, if I.
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  Speaker 2: Could only waken you.
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  Speaker 3: Looking out over the water, how pitiless the Fiord looks today,
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  Speaker 3: lying so heavy and drowsy, leaden gray, with splashes of
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  Speaker 3: yellow and reflecting the rain clouds.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Alfred, don't sit staring out over the Fiord.
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  Speaker 3: Over the surface, yes, but in the depths there sweeps
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  Speaker 3: the rushing undertoe.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, for God's sake, don't think of the depths.
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  Speaker 1: Lukin gently at her.
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  Speaker 3: I suppose you think he is lying close outside here,
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  Speaker 3: But he is not esta. You must not think that.
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  Speaker 3: You must remember how fiercely the current sweeps out here,
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  Speaker 3: straight to the open sea.
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  Speaker 1: Throws herself forward against the table and sobbing buries her
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  Speaker 1: face in her hands.
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  Speaker 2: Oh God, oh God.
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  Speaker 3: So you see little aof has passed so far far
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  Speaker 3: away from us now.
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  Speaker 1: Luke's imploringly up at him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Alfred, don't say such things.
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  Speaker 3: Why you can reckon it ote for yourself, you that
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  Speaker 3: are so clever in eight and twenty hours, nine and
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  Speaker 3: twenty hours, Let me see, let me see, shrieking.
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  Speaker 1: And stopping her eyes, Alfred clenching his hand firmly upon
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  Speaker 1: the table.
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  Speaker 3: Can you conceive the meaning of a thing like this?
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  Speaker 1: Looks at him.
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  Speaker 3: Of what of this that has been done to Rita
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  Speaker 3: and me?
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  Speaker 2: The meaning of it?
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  Speaker 3: Yes? The meaning? I say, For after all, there must
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  Speaker 3: be a meaning in it. Life, existence, destiny cannot be
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  Speaker 3: so utterly meaningless.
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  Speaker 2: Oh who can say anything with certainty about these things?
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  Speaker 3: My dear Alfred, No, no, I believe you are right there.
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  Speaker 3: Perhaps the whole thing goes simply by haphazard taking its
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  Speaker 3: own course, like a drifting wreck without a rudder. I
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  Speaker 3: dare say that is how it is, At least it
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  Speaker 3: seems very like it.
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  Speaker 2: What if it only seems.
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  Speaker 3: Ah, Perhaps you can unravel the mystery for me, I
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  Speaker 3: certainly can. Here is aof just entering upon conscious life
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  Speaker 3: full of such infinite possibilities, splendid possibilities. Perhaps he would
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  Speaker 3: have filled my life with pride and gladness. And then
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  Speaker 3: a crazy old woman has only to come this way
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  Speaker 3: and show a cur in a bag.
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  Speaker 2: But we don't in the least know how it really happened.
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  Speaker 3: Yes we do. The boys saw her row out over
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  Speaker 3: the fjord. They saw Ayov standing alone at the very
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  Speaker 3: end of the pier. They saw him gazing after her,
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  Speaker 3: and then he seemed to turn giddy, and that was
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  Speaker 3: how he fell over and disappeared.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, yes, but all the same she has.
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  Speaker 3: Drawn him down into the depths that you may be
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  Speaker 3: sure of.
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  Speaker 2: Dear, But Alfred, why should she?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that is just the question. Why should she? There
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  Speaker 3: is no retribution behind it at all, no atonement. I mean,
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  Speaker 3: Ayof never did her any harm. He never called names
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  Speaker 3: after her, he never threw stones at her dog, while
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  Speaker 3: he had never set eyes either on her or her
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  Speaker 3: dog till yesterday. So there is no retribution. The whole
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  Speaker 3: thing is utterly groundless and meaningless, ast and yet the
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  Speaker 3: order of the world requires it.
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  Speaker 2: Have you spoken to Rita of these things?
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  Speaker 1: Shakes his head.
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  Speaker 3: I feel as if I can talk better to you
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  Speaker 3: about them and about everything else as well as that.
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  Speaker 1: Takes serving materials and a little paper parcel out of
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  Speaker 1: her pocket, almost sits, looking on absently.
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  Speaker 3: What have you got there?
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  Speaker 1: Esta? Taking his head some black crape?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, what is the use of that?
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  Speaker 2: Rita asked me to put it on? May I?
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  Speaker 3: Oh? Yes, as far as I am concerned.
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  Speaker 1: She soothes the crape on his head, sitting and looking
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  Speaker 1: at her.
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  Speaker 3: Where is Rita?
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  Speaker 2: She is walking about the garden a little. I think
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  Speaker 2: Borgheim is with her.
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  Speaker 3: Indeed, is Boruchheim out here today? Again?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, he came out by the mid day.
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  Speaker 3: I didn't expect that.
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  Speaker 2: He was so fond of Alef.
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  Speaker 3: Borgheim is a faithful soul, asked with quiet warmth.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, faithful he is, indeed.
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  Speaker 1: That is certain, fixing his eyes upon her.
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  Speaker 3: You are really fond of him, yes I am. And
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  Speaker 3: yet you cannot make up your mind too.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my dear Alfred, don't talk of that?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, tell me why you cannot.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, please, you really must not ask me, you
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  Speaker 2: see it so painful for me. There now the hat
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  Speaker 2: is done, thank you. And now for the left.
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  Speaker 3: Arm, Am I to have crape on it too?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? That is the custom.
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  Speaker 3: Well as you please.
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  Speaker 1: She moves close up to him and begins to sue.
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  Speaker 2: Keep your arm still, then I won't prick you.
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  Speaker 1: With a half smile.
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  Speaker 2: This is like the old days, Yes, don't you think so.
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  Speaker 3: When you were a little girl, you used to sit
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  Speaker 3: just like this mending my clothes. The first thing you
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  Speaker 3: ever sewed for me that was black crape too? Was
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  Speaker 3: it around my student's cap at the time of father's death?
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  Speaker 2: Could I sow? Then? Fancy I have forgotten it.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, you were such a little thing.
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  Speaker 2: Then, Yes, I was little then.
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  Speaker 3: And then two years afterwards, when we lost your mother,
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  Speaker 3: then again you sewed a big crape band on my sleeve.
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  Speaker 2: I thought it was the right thing to do.
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  Speaker 1: Patting her hand.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, it was the right thing to do esther.
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  Speaker 3: And then when we were left alone in the world
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  Speaker 3: we two, Are you done already?
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  Speaker 2: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Putting together assuing materials.
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  Speaker 2: It was really a beautiful time for us, Alfred, we
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  Speaker 2: two alone.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it was though we had to toil so hard
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  Speaker 3: you toiled, Oh you toiled too, in your way, I
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  Speaker 3: can assure you. Smiling, my dear faithful Eyolf.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you mustn't remind me of that stupid nonsense about
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  Speaker 2: the name.
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  Speaker 3: Well, if you had been a boy, you would have
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  Speaker 3: been called aof.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, if. But when you began to go to.
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  Speaker 1: College smiling involuntarily.
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  Speaker 2: I wonder how you could be so childish?
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  Speaker 3: Was it I that was childish?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, indeed I think it was, as I look back
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  Speaker 2: upon it. All you were ashamed of having no brother,
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  Speaker 2: only a sister.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, it was you, dear, You were ashamed.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yes, I too, perhaps a little, And somehow or
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  Speaker 2: other I was sorry for you.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I believe you were. And then you hunted up
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  Speaker 3: some of my old boy's clothes.
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  Speaker 2: Your fine Sunday clothes. Yes, do you remember the blue
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  Speaker 2: blouse and knickerbockers.
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  Speaker 1: His eyes dwelling upon her.
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  Speaker 3: I remember so well how you looked when you used.
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  Speaker 2: To wear them only when we were at home alone, though.
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  Speaker 3: And how serious we were, dear, and how mightily pleased
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  Speaker 3: with ourselves. I always called you a off.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Alfred. I hope you have never told Rita this.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, I believe I did once tell her.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Alfred, how could you do that?
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  Speaker 3: Well, you see, one tells one's wife everything very nearly.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I suppose one does.
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  Speaker 1: As if awakening at his forehead and starts up.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, how can I sit here.
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  Speaker 1: And rising look sorrowfully at him?
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  Speaker 2: What is the matter?
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  Speaker 3: He had almost passed away from me? He had passed
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  Speaker 3: quite away Aolf. Here I sat living in these recollections,
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  Speaker 3: and he had no part in them.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, Alfred, little Aolf was behind it all.
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  Speaker 3: No, he was not. He slipped out of my memory,
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  Speaker 3: out of my thoughts. I did not see him for
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  Speaker 3: a moment as we sat here talking. I utterly forgot
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  Speaker 3: him all that time.
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  Speaker 2: But surely you must take some rest in your sorrow.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, that is just what I will not do.
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  Speaker 3: I must not. I have no right and no heart
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  Speaker 3: for it either.
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  Speaker 1: Going in great excitement towards.
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  Speaker 3: The right, all my thoughts must be out there where
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  Speaker 3: he lies, drifting in the depths.
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  Speaker 1: Following him and holding him back.
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  Speaker 2: Alfred, Alfred, don't go to the fjord.
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  Speaker 3: I must go out to him. Let me go, Asta,
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  Speaker 3: I will take the boat.
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  Speaker 2: Don't go to the fjord, I say.
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  Speaker 3: Yielding, No, no, I will not only let me alone,
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  Speaker 3: leading him back to the table.
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  Speaker 2: You must rest from your thoughts, Alfred, come here and sit.
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  Speaker 1: Down, magin as if to seat himself on the bench.
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  Speaker 3: Well, well as you please.
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  Speaker 2: No, I won't let you sit there, Yes, let me No, don't,
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  Speaker 2: for then you will only sit looking out.
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  Speaker 1: Forces him down upon a chair with his back to
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  Speaker 1: the right.
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  Speaker 2: There. Now, now that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Seats herself upon the bench.
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  Speaker 2: And now we can talk a little again.
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  Speaker 3: It was good to did in the sorrow and heartache
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  Speaker 3: for a moment.
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  Speaker 2: You must do so, Alfred.
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  Speaker 3: But don't you think it is terribly weak and unfeeling
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  Speaker 3: of me to be able to do so?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: No, I am sure it is impossible to keep circling
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  Speaker 2: forever round one fixed thought.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, for me, it is impossible. Before you came to
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  Speaker 3: me here, I sat torturing myself unspeakably with this crushing,
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  Speaker 3: gnawing sorrow. Yes, and would you believe it? Esta, Hm, Well,
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  Speaker 3: in the midst of all the agony, I found myself
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  Speaker 3: speculating what we should have for dinner to day.
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  Speaker 2: Well, Well, if only it rests you too.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, just fancy, dear, it seemed as if it did
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  Speaker 3: give me rest.
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  Speaker 1: Hal's out He's hand to her across the table.
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  Speaker 3: How good it is, Asta that I have you with me.
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  Speaker 3: I am so glad of that, glad, glad even in
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  Speaker 3: my sorrow, looking earnestly at him.
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  Speaker 2: You ought most of all to be glad that you
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  Speaker 2: have Rita.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, of course I should. But Rita is no kin
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  Speaker 3: to me. It isn't like.
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  Speaker 2: Having a sister, do you say that, Alfred?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, our family is a thing apart. We have always
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  Speaker 3: had vowels for our initials. Don't you remember how often
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  Speaker 3: we used to speak of that? And all our relations
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  Speaker 3: all equally poor, and we have all the same color
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  Speaker 3: of eyes.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think I have?
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  Speaker 3: No? You take entirely after your mother. You are not
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  Speaker 3: in the least like the rest of us, not even
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  Speaker 3: like father. But that's all the same, all the same. Well,
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  Speaker 3: I believe that living together has, as it were, stamped
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  Speaker 3: us in each other's image mentally.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, oh, you must never say that, Alfred. It
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  Speaker 2: is only I that have taken my stamp from you,
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  Speaker 2: and it is to you that I owe everything, every
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  Speaker 2: good thing in the world.
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  Speaker 3: Shaking his head, you owe me nothing, Esta On the contrary.
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  Speaker 2: I owe you everything. You must never doubt that no
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  Speaker 2: sacrifice has been too great for you.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, nonsense, sacrifice, don't talk of such a thing. I
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  Speaker 3: have only loved you asta ever since you were a
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  Speaker 3: little child, And then it always seemed to me that
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  Speaker 3: I had so much injustice to make up to you.
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  Speaker 3: Far injustice you, not precisely on my own account, but
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  Speaker 3: but on father's half.
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  Speaker 1: Rising from the bench, on father's sitting down.
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  Speaker 2: Again, what do you mean by that, Alfred?
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  Speaker 3: Father was never really kind to you.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, don't say that.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is true. He did not love you, not
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  Speaker 3: as he ought to have.
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  Speaker 2: No, perhaps not as he loved you. That was only natural.
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  Speaker 3: And he was very often hard to your mother too,
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  Speaker 3: at least in the last years.
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  Speaker 2: Mother was so much much younger than he, Remember that.
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  Speaker 3: Do you think they were not quite suited to each other?
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps not yes.
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  Speaker 3: But still, Father, who in other ways was so gentle
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  Speaker 3: and warm hearted, so kindly towards.
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  Speaker 2: Everyone, Mother too, was not always as she ought to
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  Speaker 2: have been.
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  Speaker 3: Your mother was not, perhaps not always towards father. Do
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  Speaker 3: you mean yes, I never noticed.
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  Speaker 1: That straggling with her tears rises.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my dear Alfred, let them rest those who are gone.
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  Speaker 1: She goes towards the right, rising, Yes, let them rest
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  Speaker 1: ring in his hands.
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  Speaker 3: But those who are gone, it is they that won't
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  Speaker 3: let us rest. As to neither day nor night nouk
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  Speaker 3: swarm yet him.
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  Speaker 2: Time will make it all seem easier, Alfred.
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  Speaker 3: Looking helplessly at her, Yes, don't you think it will?
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  Speaker 3: But how am I to get over these terrible first days?
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  Speaker 3: That is what I cannot imagine.
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  Speaker 1: Imploringly, laying her hands on his shoulders, go up to Rita,
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  Speaker 1: Oh please do vehemently, withdrawing from her.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, no, don't talk to me of that. I cannot.
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  Speaker 3: I tell you. Let me remain here with you.
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  Speaker 1: Well, I will not leave you, seizing her hand and
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  Speaker 1: holding it fast.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 1: Looks out for a time over the fiord.
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  Speaker 3: Where is my little aof.
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  Speaker 1: Now smiling sadly to her?
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  Speaker 3: Can you tell me that my big wise aof shaking
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  Speaker 3: his head, No one in all the world can tell
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  Speaker 3: me that. I know only this one terrible thing, that
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  Speaker 3: he is gone from me.
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  Speaker 1: Looking up to the left and withdrawing her hand. Here
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  Speaker 1: they are coming, missus olmos An engineer Borgheim, come down
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  Speaker 1: by the woodpath. She leading the way. She wears a
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  Speaker 1: doctress and a black veil over the head. He has
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  Speaker 1: an umbrella under his arm, going to Mita.
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  Speaker 3: How is it with you, Rita.
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  Speaker 4: Pursing him, Oh, don't ask.
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  Speaker 3: Why do you come here.
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  Speaker 4: Only to look for you? What are you doing?
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  Speaker 3: Nothing? Asta came down to me.
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  Speaker 4: Yes, But before Asta came, you have been away from
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  Speaker 4: me all the morning.
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  Speaker 3: I have been sitting here looking out over the water.
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  Speaker 4: Ugh, how can you?
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  Speaker 3: I like best to be.
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  Speaker 1: Alone now moving restlessly about, and then to sit still,
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  Speaker 1: to stay in one place.
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  Speaker 3: I have nothing in the world to move for.
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  Speaker 4: I cannot bear to be anywhere long, least of all
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  Speaker 4: here with a fiord at my very feet.
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  Speaker 3: It is just the nearness of the fiord to Bogheim.
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  Speaker 4: Don't you think he should come back with the rest
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  Speaker 4: of us.
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  Speaker 5: To almost I believe it would be better for you.
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  Speaker 3: No, No, let me stay where I am.
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  Speaker 4: Then I will stay with you, Alfred.
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  Speaker 3: Very well, do so, then you remain too.
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  Speaker 1: Esther whispers to Bogheim. Let us leave them alone with
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  Speaker 1: a glance of comprehension.
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  Speaker 5: Ah, miss Olmers, shall we go a little further along
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  Speaker 5: the shore for the very last time, taking her umbrella.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, come, let us go a little further.
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  Speaker 1: Esta and Bogheim go out together behind the boots head.
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  Speaker 1: Almeers wanders about for a little. Then he seats himself
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  Speaker 1: on a stone under the trees on the left. Comes
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  Speaker 1: up and stands before him, her hands folded and hanging down.
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  Speaker 4: Can you think the thought, Alfred, that we have lost
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  Speaker 4: aof looking sadly.
• 16:35
  Speaker 1: At the ground.
• 16:36
  Speaker 3: We must accustom ourselves to think it.
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: I cannot, I cannot. And then that horrible sight that
• 16:45
  Speaker 4: will haunt me all my life.
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: Long, looking up?
• 16:48
  Speaker 3: What sight? What have you seen?
• 16:50
  Speaker 4: I have seen nothing myself. I have only heard it told.
• 16:54
  Speaker 3: Oh you may as well tell me at once?
• 16:57
  Speaker 4: I got Borgheim to go down with me to the pier.
• 17:00
  Speaker 3: What did you want there?
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: To question the boys as to how it happened? But
• 17:03
  Speaker 4: we know that we got to know more well. It
• 17:07
  Speaker 4: is not true that he disappeared all at once?
• 17:10
  Speaker 3: Do they say that? Now?
• 17:12
  Speaker 4: Yes? They say they saw him lying down on the bottom,
• 17:16
  Speaker 4: deep down in the clear water.
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: Grinding his teeth, and they didn't save him.
• 17:22
  Speaker 4: I suppose they could not.
• 17:24
  Speaker 3: They could swim, every one of them. Did they tell
• 17:27
  Speaker 3: you how he was lying whilst they could see him, Yes, they.
• 17:31
  Speaker 4: Said, he was lying on his back, and with great open.
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: Eyes, open eyes, but quite still.
• 17:40
  Speaker 4: Yes, quite still. And then something came and swept him away.
• 17:49
  Speaker 4: They called it the undertoe, nodding slowly.
• 17:52
  Speaker 3: So that was the last they saw of him. Yes,
• 17:56
  Speaker 3: and never never will anyone see him again.
• 18:01
  Speaker 4: I shall see him day and night, as he.
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: Lay down there with great open eyes.
• 18:10
  Speaker 4: Yes, with great open eyes, I see them.
• 18:15
  Speaker 1: I see them now, rises slowly and looks with quiet
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: menace at her.
• 18:20
  Speaker 3: Were they evil? Those eyes, Rita.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: Turning pale, evil, going close up to her?
• 18:27
  Speaker 3: Were they evil eyes that stared up up from the depths.
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: Shrinking from him?
• 18:32
  Speaker 4: Alfred?
• 18:34
  Speaker 3: Following her answer me, were they a child's evil eyes?
• 18:39
  Speaker 4: Alfred?
• 18:40
  Speaker 3: Alfred, Now things have come about just as you wished, Rita.
• 18:44
  Speaker 4: I what did I wish.
• 18:48
  Speaker 3: That aolf were not here?
• 18:50
  Speaker 4: Never for a moment have I wished that that aolf
• 18:54
  Speaker 4: should not stand between us? That was what I wished.
• 18:57
  Speaker 3: Well, Well, he does not stand between us any.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: More, softly gazing straight before.
• 19:03
  Speaker 4: Her, perhaps now more than ever.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: With a sudden shudder, Oh, that horrible sight nuts.
• 19:11
  Speaker 3: The child's evil eyes.
• 19:13
  Speaker 1: In dread, recoiling from him.
• 19:15
  Speaker 4: Let me be Alfred, I am afraid of you. I
• 19:17
  Speaker 4: have never seen you like this before.
• 19:20
  Speaker 1: Looks harshly and coldly at her.
• 19:22
  Speaker 3: Sorrow makes us wicked and hateful.
• 19:24
  Speaker 1: Terrified and yet defiant.
• 19:26
  Speaker 4: That is what I feel too.
• 19:29
  Speaker 1: Almos goes towards the right and looks out over the fjord.
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: Rita seats herself at the table a short pose, turning
• 19:36
  Speaker 1: his head towards her.
• 19:38
  Speaker 3: You never really and truly loved him, Never.
• 19:41
  Speaker 4: With cold self control, aolf would never let me take
• 19:44
  Speaker 4: him really and truly to my heart.
• 19:46
  Speaker 3: Because you did not want to.
• 19:48
  Speaker 4: Oh, yes I did. I did want to. But some
• 19:52
  Speaker 4: one stood in the way, even from the first.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: Turning right round?
• 19:56
  Speaker 3: Do you mean that I stood in the way?
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: Oh no, not a coming nearer her?
• 20:01
  Speaker 4: Who then his aunt Asta, Yes, Asta, stood and barred
• 20:07
  Speaker 4: the way for me?
• 20:08
  Speaker 3: Can you say that, Rita?
• 20:10
  Speaker 4: Yes Asta? She took him to her heart from the
• 20:13
  Speaker 4: moment that happened, that miserable fall.
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: If she did so, she did it in love.
• 20:19
  Speaker 4: That is just it. I cannot endure to share anything
• 20:23
  Speaker 4: with anyone not in love.
• 20:25
  Speaker 3: We too could have shared him between us in love.
• 20:28
  Speaker 4: Looking scornfully at him, we Oh, the truth is, you
• 20:33
  Speaker 4: have never had any real love for him.
• 20:34
  Speaker 1: Either, looks at her in astonishment.
• 20:37
  Speaker 3: I have not.
• 20:38
  Speaker 4: No, you have not. At first you were so utterly
• 20:42
  Speaker 4: taken up by that book of yours about responsibility.
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: Yes I was, but my very book, I sacrificed for AOF's.
• 20:51
  Speaker 4: Sake, not out of love for him.
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: Why, then, do you suppose.
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: Because you were consumed with mistrust of yourself, because you
• 21:00
  Speaker 4: had begun to doubt whether you had any great vacation
• 21:02
  Speaker 4: to live for in the world.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Observing her closely, could you see that in me?
• 21:07
  Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, little by little, and then you needed something
• 21:12
  Speaker 4: new to fill up your life. It seems I was
• 21:15
  Speaker 4: not enough for you any longer.
• 21:17
  Speaker 3: That is the law of change, reader, And.
• 21:19
  Speaker 4: That was why you wanted to make a prodigy of
• 21:21
  Speaker 4: poor little aof That.
• 21:23
  Speaker 3: Was not what I wanted. I wanted to make a
• 21:25
  Speaker 3: happy human being of him, that and nothing.
• 21:28
  Speaker 4: More, but not out of love for him. Look into yourself.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: With a certain shyness of expression.
• 21:35
  Speaker 4: Search out all that lies under and behind your action.
• 21:40
  Speaker 3: Aviding her eyes, there is something you shrink from saying.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: And you too, looks thoughtfully at her.
• 21:46
  Speaker 3: If it is as you say, then we two have
• 21:49
  Speaker 3: never really possessed our own child.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: No, not in perfect love, And yet we.
• 21:56
  Speaker 3: Are sorrowing so bitterly for him.
• 21:58
  Speaker 4: Yes, isn't it curious that we should grieve like this
• 22:02
  Speaker 4: over a little stranger boy?
• 22:04
  Speaker 3: Oh, don't call him a stranger, sadly shaking her head.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: We never won the boy, Alfred, not I nor you either.
• 22:12
  Speaker 1: Wringing his hands.
• 22:14
  Speaker 3: And now it is too late, too.
• 22:16
  Speaker 4: Late, and no consolation anywhere in anything.
• 22:20
  Speaker 3: You are the guilty one in this rising. I yes, you.
• 22:25
  Speaker 3: It was your fault that he became what he was.
• 22:28
  Speaker 3: It was your fault that he could not save himself
• 22:30
  Speaker 3: when he fell into the water with a gesture of repulsion.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: Alfred, you shall not throw the blame upon me more
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: and more beside himself.
• 22:39
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes I do. It was you that left the
• 22:41
  Speaker 3: hapless child unwatched upon the table.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: He was lying so comfortably among the cushions and sleeping
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: so soundly, And you had promised to look after him,
• 22:51
  Speaker 4: Yes I had.
• 22:52
  Speaker 3: But then you came, you, you you, and lured me to you.
• 22:58
  Speaker 1: Looking defiantly at her him.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: Oh, better own at once that you forgot the child
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: and everything else.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: In suppressed desperation.
• 23:06
  Speaker 3: Yes, that is true. I forgot the child.
• 23:10
  Speaker 4: In your arms, Alfred, Alfred, this is intolerable of.
• 23:15
  Speaker 1: You, in a louvose clenching his fists before her face.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: In that hour you condemned little Aof to death.
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: You too, you too, if it is as you say.
• 23:27
  Speaker 3: Oh, yes, call me to account too, if you will.
• 23:30
  Speaker 3: We have sinned, both of us, And so after all
• 23:34
  Speaker 3: there was retribution in AOF's death.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Retribution with more self control.
• 23:40
  Speaker 3: Yes, judgment upon you and me. Now as we stand here,
• 23:45
  Speaker 3: we have our deserts. While he lived, we let ourselves
• 23:49
  Speaker 3: shrink away from him in secret, abject remorse. We could
• 23:53
  Speaker 3: not bear to see it, the thing he had to
• 23:56
  Speaker 3: drag with him.
• 23:57
  Speaker 4: The crutch.
• 23:58
  Speaker 3: Yes, that, and now what we now call sorrow and
• 24:03
  Speaker 3: heartache is really the gnawing of conscience reata nothing else.
• 24:08
  Speaker 1: Geazing helplessly at him.
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: I feel as if all this must end in despair,
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: in madness, for both of us, for we can never
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: never make it good again.
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: Passing into a calmer mood.
• 24:21
  Speaker 3: I dreamed about AOL's last night. I thought I saw
• 24:25
  Speaker 3: him coming up from the pier. He could run like
• 24:28
  Speaker 3: other boys. So nothing had happened to him, neither the
• 24:31
  Speaker 3: one thing nor the other, And the torturing reality was
• 24:36
  Speaker 3: nothing but a dream, I thought, Oh, how I thanked
• 24:40
  Speaker 3: and blessed.
• 24:41
  Speaker 1: Shaking himself, who looking at him?
• 24:46
  Speaker 3: Whom? Whom?
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: Yes, whom did you thank and bless putting.
• 24:51
  Speaker 3: Aside the question I was only dreaming, you know.
• 24:54
  Speaker 4: One whom you yourself, do not believe in.
• 24:57
  Speaker 3: That was how I felt all the same. Of course
• 25:01
  Speaker 3: I was sleeping.
• 25:02
  Speaker 4: You should not have taught me to doubt, Alfred.
• 25:04
  Speaker 3: Would it have been right of me to let you
• 25:06
  Speaker 3: go through life with your mind full of empty fictions?
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: It would have been better for me, for then I
• 25:12
  Speaker 4: should have had something to take refuge in. Now I
• 25:15
  Speaker 4: am utterly at sea, observing her closely.
• 25:18
  Speaker 3: If you had the choice, now, if you could follow
• 25:21
  Speaker 3: aof to where he is, yes, what then if you
• 25:26
  Speaker 3: were fully assured that you would find him again, know him,
• 25:30
  Speaker 3: understand him?
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, what then would you, of.
• 25:35
  Speaker 3: Your own free will, take the leap over to him,
• 25:38
  Speaker 3: of your own free will, leave everything behind you, renounce
• 25:42
  Speaker 3: your whole earthly life? Would you rita now at once? Yes,
• 25:49
  Speaker 3: to day this very hour? Answer me? Would you?
• 25:52
  Speaker 4: Oh? I don't know, Alfred, No, I think I should
• 25:57
  Speaker 4: have to stay here with you.
• 26:00
  Speaker 3: For my sake.
• 26:02
  Speaker 4: Yes, only for your sake?
• 26:04
  Speaker 3: And afterwards would you then answer?
• 26:08
  Speaker 4: What can I answer? I cannot go away from you, never, never.
• 26:13
  Speaker 3: But suppose now I went to aof and you had
• 26:16
  Speaker 3: the fullest assurance that you would meet both him and
• 26:19
  Speaker 3: me there, Then would you come over to us?
• 26:22
  Speaker 4: I should want to so much, so much, But well
• 26:29
  Speaker 4: I could not. I feel it. No, No, I never
• 26:34
  Speaker 4: could not, for all the glory of heaven, nor I No.
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: You feel it so too, don't you, Alfred? You could
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: not either, could you? No?
• 26:45
  Speaker 3: For it is here in the life of earth that
• 26:48
  Speaker 3: we living beings are at home.
• 26:50
  Speaker 4: Yes, here lies the kind of happiness that we can
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: understand now happiness?
• 26:56
  Speaker 3: Happiness?
• 26:58
  Speaker 4: You mean that happiness that we can never find?
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: It again, looks inquiringly at him.
• 27:03
  Speaker 4: But if no, no, I dare not say it, nor
• 27:07
  Speaker 4: even think it?
• 27:08
  Speaker 3: Yes, say it, say it, Rita?
• 27:10
  Speaker 4: Could we not try to? Would it not be possible
• 27:14
  Speaker 4: to forget him? Forget eof forget the anguish and remorse?
• 27:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, can you wish it?
• 27:20
  Speaker 4: Yes? If it were possible for this, I cannot bear
• 27:26
  Speaker 4: this forever? Can we not think of something that will
• 27:29
  Speaker 4: bring its forgetfulness?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Shakes's head?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: What could that be?
• 27:33
  Speaker 4: Could we not see what traveling would do far away from.
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: Here, from home, when you know you are never really
• 27:40
  Speaker 3: well anywhere but here.
• 27:43
  Speaker 4: Well, then let us have crowds of people about us,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: keep open house, plunge into something that can deaden and
• 27:49
  Speaker 4: dull our thoughts.
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: Such a life would be impossible for me. No, Rather
• 27:54
  Speaker 3: than that, I would try to take up my work.
• 27:56
  Speaker 4: Again, Your work, the work that is all, always stood
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: like a dead wall between us.
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Slowly looking fixedly at her.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: There must always be a dead wall between us two
• 28:08
  Speaker 3: from this time forth.
• 28:10
  Speaker 4: Why must there.
• 28:11
  Speaker 3: Who knows but that a child's great open eyes are
• 28:14
  Speaker 3: watching us day and night, softly shuddering, Alfred, how terrible
• 28:22
  Speaker 3: to think of Our love has been like a consuming fire.
• 28:26
  Speaker 3: Now it must be quenched.
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: With the movement towards him.
• 28:30
  Speaker 4: Quenched it is quenched in one of us, And you
• 28:34
  Speaker 4: dare say that to me it.
• 28:36
  Speaker 3: Is dead reata. But in what I now feel for you,
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: in our common guilt and need of atonement, I seem
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: to foresee a sort of resurrection.
• 28:47
  Speaker 4: I don't care a bit about any resurrection, rita. I
• 28:51
  Speaker 4: am a warm blooded being. I don't go drowsing about
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: with fish's blood in my.
• 28:56
  Speaker 1: Veins, ring in her hands, and now to.
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: Be imprisoned for life in anguish and remorse, imprisoned with
• 29:03
  Speaker 4: one who is no longer mine, mine, Mine.
• 29:06
  Speaker 3: It must have ended so sometime, Lita must have ended.
• 29:11
  Speaker 4: So the love that in the beginning rushed forth so
• 29:14
  Speaker 4: eagerly to meet with love.
• 29:16
  Speaker 3: My love did not rush forth to you in the beginning.
• 29:19
  Speaker 4: What did you feel for me? First of all? Dread
• 29:22
  Speaker 4: that I can understand? How was it then that I
• 29:26
  Speaker 4: won you?
• 29:26
  Speaker 3: After all you were so entrancingly beautiful.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Rita look searching me at him.
• 29:32
  Speaker 4: Then that was the only reason, say it, Alfred, the
• 29:37
  Speaker 4: only reason.
• 29:38
  Speaker 1: Conquering himself.
• 29:40
  Speaker 3: No, there was another as well.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I can guess what that was. It was my gold
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: and my green forests, as you call it? Was it
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: not so, Alfred?
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: Yes, looks at him with deep reproach.
• 29:53
  Speaker 4: How could you? How could you?
• 29:57
  Speaker 3: I had asked to think.
• 29:58
  Speaker 4: Of Yes, Asta, then it was really Asta that brought
• 30:03
  Speaker 4: us two together.
• 30:04
  Speaker 3: She knew nothing about it. She has no suspicion of it,
• 30:07
  Speaker 3: even to this day, rejecting the.
• 30:09
  Speaker 4: Plea it was Asta, nevertheless.
• 30:12
  Speaker 1: Smiling with a sidelong glance of scorn.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: Or No, it was little aof, little Aolf, my dear
• 30:20
  Speaker 4: aof Yes, you used to call her aof did you not?
• 30:25
  Speaker 4: I seem to remember your telling me so once in
• 30:28
  Speaker 4: a moment of confidence.
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: Coming up to him.
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: Do you remember it? That entrancingly beautiful hour?
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Alfred recoiling as if in horror.
• 30:38
  Speaker 3: I remember nothing. I will not remember following him.
• 30:43
  Speaker 4: It was in that hour when your other little Aolf
• 30:45
  Speaker 4: was crippled for life, in.
• 30:47
  Speaker 1: A hollow voice, supporting himself against the.
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: Table or retribution, Yes, retribution.
• 30:55
  Speaker 1: Asta and Borgheim returned by way of the boots shed.
• 30:58
  Speaker 1: She is carrying somewhat aly hand.
• 31:01
  Speaker 4: Well, Esta, have you and mister Borgheim talked things thoroughly over? Oh?
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: Yes, pretty well?
• 31:08
  Speaker 1: She puts down her umbrella and lays the flowers upon
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: a chair.
• 31:12
  Speaker 5: Miss Omers has been very silent during our.
• 31:16
  Speaker 4: Walk, indeed has she? Well? Alfred and I have talked
• 31:21
  Speaker 4: things out thoroughly enough.
• 31:23
  Speaker 1: Looking eagerly at both of them.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: What is this enough to last all our lifetime?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: I say break enough.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Come now, let us go up to the house, all
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: four of us. We must have company about us in future.
• 31:35
  Speaker 4: It will never do for Alfred and me to be alone.
• 31:37
  Speaker 3: Yes, do you go ahead, you two, turning, I must
• 31:41
  Speaker 3: speak a word to you before we go, Esta looking
• 31:43
  Speaker 3: at him.
• 31:44
  Speaker 4: Indeed, Well, then you come with me, mister Borgheim.
• 31:49
  Speaker 1: Rita and Borgheim go up the wood path.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: Alfred, what is the matter.
• 31:54
  Speaker 3: Only that I cannot endure to be here any more?
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: Here with Rita? Do you mean?
• 32:00
  Speaker 3: Yes, Rita and I cannot go on living together.
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: Seizes his arm and shakes it.
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: Oh, Alfred, don't say anything so terrible.
• 32:07
  Speaker 3: It is the truth. I am telling you. We are
• 32:10
  Speaker 3: making each other wicked and hateful.
• 32:12
  Speaker 2: I had never never dreamt of anything like this.
• 32:16
  Speaker 3: I did not realize it either till today.
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: And now you want to what is it you really want, Alfred?
• 32:22
  Speaker 3: I want to get away from everything here, far far
• 32:26
  Speaker 3: away from it.
• 32:27
  Speaker 2: All, and to stand quite alone.
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: In the world nuts as I used to before.
• 32:33
  Speaker 2: Yes, but you are not fitted for living alone.
• 32:35
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, I was so in the old days at
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: any rate, in the old days.
• 32:40
  Speaker 2: Yes, For then you had me with you.
• 32:42
  Speaker 1: Trying to take a hand.
• 32:43
  Speaker 3: Yes, and it is to you, Esther, that I now
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: want to come home again, eluding him.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: To me, No, no, Alfred, that is quite impossible.
• 32:53
  Speaker 1: Looks sadly at her.
• 32:54
  Speaker 3: Then Borgheim stands in the way after all.
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: No, no, he does not. That is quite a mistake.
• 33:00
  Speaker 3: Good. Then I will come to you, my dear dear sister.
• 33:04
  Speaker 3: I must come to you again, home to you, to
• 33:07
  Speaker 3: be purified and ennobled. After my life with Alfred.
• 33:11
  Speaker 2: You are doing Rita a great wrong.
• 33:13
  Speaker 3: I have done her a great wrong, but not in this. Oh,
• 33:17
  Speaker 3: think of it, Asta, Think of our life together, yours
• 33:20
  Speaker 3: and mine. Was it not like one long holy day
• 33:23
  Speaker 3: from first to last?
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: Yes? It was, Alfred, But we can never live it
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: over again.
• 33:29
  Speaker 3: Do you mean that marriage has so irreparably ruined me?
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: No, that is not what I mean.
• 33:34
  Speaker 3: Well, then we too will live our old life over again.
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: We cannot, Alfred.
• 33:40
  Speaker 3: Yes we can. For the love of a brother and sister.
• 33:43
  Speaker 2: What of it?
• 33:44
  Speaker 3: That is the only relation in life that is not
• 33:47
  Speaker 3: subject to the law of change?
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: But if that relation were not not not our relation?
• 33:54
  Speaker 1: Stares at her in astonishment.
• 33:56
  Speaker 3: Not ours? Why what can you mean by that?
• 33:59
  Speaker 2: It is best I should tell you at once, Alfred.
• 34:02
  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, tell me.
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: The letters to mother, those in my portfolio. Well, you
• 34:08
  Speaker 2: must read them when I am gone.
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: Why must I struggling with herself?
• 34:13
  Speaker 2: For then you will see that well, that I have
• 34:17
  Speaker 2: no right to bear your father's name.
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: Staggering backwards, ast, what is this, you say.
• 34:24
  Speaker 2: Read the letters, then you will see and understand, and
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: perhaps have some forgiveness for mother too.
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: Clutching at his forehead.
• 34:32
  Speaker 3: I cannot grasp this. I cannot realize the thought you Asta,
• 34:39
  Speaker 3: you are.
• 34:39
  Speaker 1: Not, you are not my brother, Alfred quickly af defiantly,
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: looking at her, Well.
• 34:45
  Speaker 3: But what difference does that really make in our relation?
• 34:48
  Speaker 3: Practically none at all, shaking her head.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: It makes all the difference, Alfred. Our relation is not
• 34:54
  Speaker 2: that of brother and sister.
• 34:55
  Speaker 3: No, no, but it is none the less sacred for
• 34:59
  Speaker 3: that it will always be equally sacred.
• 35:02
  Speaker 2: Do not forget that it is subject to the law
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: of change, as you said just now.
• 35:07
  Speaker 1: Looks inquiringly at her.
• 35:09
  Speaker 3: Do you mean that?
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: Not a word more? My dear, dear Alfred.
• 35:13
  Speaker 1: Takes up the flowers from the chair.
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: Do you see these water lilies?
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: Nodding slowly, They are the sort that shoot up from
• 35:20
  Speaker 3: the very depth.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: I pulled them in the tarn where it flows out
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: into the Fiord.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: Holds them out to him.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Will you take them? Alfred?
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Taking them thanks with tears in her eyes.
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: They are a last greeting to you from from little Aolf.
• 35:36
  Speaker 3: Looking at her, from aolf out yonder, or from.
• 35:40
  Speaker 1: You, from both of us taking up our umbrella.
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: Now come with me to Rita.
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: She goes up the wood path, takes up his hat
• 35:48
  Speaker 1: from the table, and whispers sadly.
• 35:50
  Speaker 3: Hester Aolf, little Aolf.
• 35:56
  Speaker 1: He follows her up the path, and a fact second