You dare not go away from me!"
"Those are lies, Laura, you don't even believe it yourself. It is not
because you think such a terrible lot of me, that you are distressed
now. You are only a little bit alarmed because of the change, you are
frightened because of the slight disarrangement of your daily habits.
I am thoroughly familiar with that, you are not the first one I have
gotten tired of."
"Oh, stay with me only to-day, I won't torment you to stay a single
hour longer.
"You really are dogs, you women! You haven't a trace of fine feelings
in your body. If one gives you a kick, you come crawling back again."
"Yes, yes, that's what we do, but stay only for to-day--won't
you--stay!"
"Stay, stay! No!"
"You have never loved me, Mogens!"
"No!"
"Yes, you did; you loved me the day when there was such a violent
wind, oh, that beautiful day down at the sea-shore, when we sat in the
shelter of the boat."
"Stupid girl!"
"If I only were a respectable girl with fine parents, and not such a
one as I am, then you would stay with me; then you would not have the
heart to be so hard--and I, who love you so!"
"Oh, don't bother about that."
"No, I am like the dust beneath your feet, you care no more for me.
Not one kind word, only hard words; contempt, that is good enough for
me."
"The others are neither better nor worse than you. Good-by, Laura!"
He held out his hand to her, but she kept hers on her back and wailed:
"No, no, not good-by! not good-by!"
Mogens raised the blind, stepped back a couple of paces and let it
fall down in front of the window.
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