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Oswald.
I know it. You may live the same life here as there, and yet it won't be the same life.
Mrs. Alving.
[Who has been listening eagerly, rises, her eyes big with thought, and says:] Now I see the sequence of things.
Oswald.
What is it you see?
Mrs. Alving.
I see it now for the first time. And now I can speak.
Oswald.
[Rising.] Mother, I don't understand you.
Regina.
[Who has also risen.] Perhaps I ought to go?
Mrs. Alving.
No. Stay here. Now I can speak. Now, my boy, you shall know the whole truth. And then you can choose. Oswald! Regina!
Oswald.
Hush! The Pastor
Manders.
[Enters by the hall door.] There! We have had a most edifying time down there.
Oswald.
So have we.