TEKLA. Oh yes, I have!
ADOLPH. How can you see what doesn't exist, unless your fear of
something has stirred up your fancy into seeing what has never
existed? What is it you fear? That I might borrow somebody else's
eyes in order to see you as you are, and not as you seem to be?
TEKLA. Keep your imagination in check, Adolph! It is the beast
that dwells in man's soul.
ADOLPH. Where did you learn that? From those chaste young men on
the boat--did you?
TEKLA. [Not at all abashed] Yes, there is something to be learned
from youth also.
ADOLPH. I think you are already beginning to have a taste for
youth?
TEKLA. I have always liked youth. That's why I love you. Do you
object?
ADOLPH. No, but I should prefer to have no partners.
TEKLA. [Prattling roguishly] My heart is so big, little brother,
that there is room in it for many more than him.
ADOLPH. But little brother doesn't want any more brothers.
TEKLA. Come here to Pussy now and get his hair pulled because he
is jealous--no, envious is the right word for it!
(Two knocks with a chair are heard from the adjoining room, where
GUSTAV is.)
ADOLPH. No, I don't want to play now.
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