Then you can ask to be released from your promise because
your husband is sick.
TEKLA, No, I don't want to do that, and you are not sick enough to
be kept from going with me.
ADOLPH. Why do you always want to drag me along? Do you feel safer
then?
TEKLA. I don't know what you mean.
ADOLPH. That's what you always say when you know I mean something
that--doesn't please you.
TEKLA. So-o! What is it now that doesn't please me?
ADOLPH. Oh, I beg you, don't begin over again--Good-bye for a
while!
(Goes out through the door in the rear and then turns to the
right.)
(TEKLA is left alone. A moment later GUSTAV enters and goes
straight up to the table as if looking for a newspaper. He
pretends not to see TEKLA.)
TEKLA. [Shows agitation, but manages to control herself] Oh, is it
you?
GUSTAV. Yes, it's me--I beg your pardon!
TEKLA. Which way did you come?
GUSTAV. By land. But--I am not going to stay, as--
TEKLA. Oh, there is no reason why you shouldn't.--Well, it was
some time ago--
GUSTAV. Yes, some time.
TEKLA. You have changed a great deal.
GUSTAV. And you are as charming as ever, A little younger, if
anything.
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