And yet it used to be my foremost virtue In your mind, and
one that you taught me.
ADOLPH. Yes, but it seems to me as if you were hiding something
behind that frankness of yours.
TEKLA. That's the new tactics, you know.
ADOLPH. I don't know why, but this place has suddenly become
offensive to me. If you feel like it, we might return home--this
evening!
TEKLA. What kind of notion is that? I have barely arrived and I
don't feel like starting on another trip.
ADOLPH. But I want to.
TEKLA. Well, what's that to me?--You can go!
ADOLPH. But I demand that you take the next boat with me!
TEKLA. Demand?--What arc you talking about?
ADOLPH. Do you realise that you are my wife?
TEKLA. Do you realise that you are my husband?
ADOLPH. Well, there's a difference between those two things.
TEKLA. Oh, that's the way you are talking now!--You have never
loved me!
ADOLPH. Haven't I?
TEKLA. No, for to love is to give.
ADOLPH. To love like a man is to give; to love like a woman is to
take.--And I have given, given, given!
TEKLA. Pooh! What have you given?
ADOLPH. Everything!
TEKLA. That's a lot! And if it be true, then I must have taken it.
Pages:
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60