John Gabriel Borkman - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
THE MAID.
Yes, I will, ma'am. [To herself.] Lord save us!
[She goes out through the wood to the right.
MRS. BORKMAN.
[Standing behind the bench.] So the night air has killed him----
ELLA RENTHEIM.
So it appears.
MRS. BORKMAN.
----strong man that he was.
ELLA RENTHEIM.
[Coming in front of the bench.] Will you not look at him, Gunhild?
MRS. BORKMAN.
[With a gesture of repulsion.] No, no, no. [Lowering her voice.] He was a miner's son, John Gabriel Borkman. He could not live in the fresh air.
ELLA RENTHEIM.
It was rather the cold that killed him.
MRS. BORKMAN.
[Shakes her head.] The cold, you say? The cold--that had killed him long ago.
ELLA RENTHEIM.
[Nodding to her.] Yes--and changed us two into shadows.
MRS. BORKMAN.
You are right there.
ELLA RENTHEIM.
[With a painful smile.] A dead man and two shadows--that is what the cold has made of us.
MRS. BORKMAN.
Yes, the coldness of heart.--And now I think we two may hold out our hands to each other, Ella.
ELLA RENTHEIM.
I think we may, now.
MRS. BORKMAN.
We twin sisters--over him we have both loved.
ELLA RENTHEIM.
We two shadows--over the dead man.
[MRS. BORKMAN behind the bench, and ELLA RENTHEIM in front of it, take each other's hand.
