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Oh, how I hate all this good-heartedness!Rörlund.
My dear Dina, I can very well understand that you must feel oppressed here, but
Dina.
Oh, if I could only go far away! I could get on well enough by myself, if only I lived among people that weren't so—so
Rörlund.
So what?
Dina.
So proper and moral.
Rörlund.
Come, Dina, you do not mean that.
Dina.
Oh, you know very well how I mean it. Every day Hilda and Netta come here that I may take example by them. I can never be as well-behaved as they are, and I will not be. Oh, if only I were far away, I daresay I could be good.
Rörlund.
You are good, my dear Dina.
Dina.
What good does that do me, here?
Rörlund.
Then you are seriously thinking of going away?
Dina.
I would not remain here a day longer, if you were not here.