cultural resources in henrik ibsen's early environment - Ibsen.net

You are incorrigible.
BRANDT.
ADOLF.
Therefore, my friend, show me to my room. The service calls, and I must change.
BRANDT.
Well, for God's sake! . . . You can go into the little room, right here by the garden room.
Wait, I shall call one of the servants.
ADOLF.
That is not necessary. I have my servant with me. (Ironically.) You can be sure that my
billetting will not cause you any more inconvenience than can be avoided. As for your
wife, just remember that she is one of my closest relatives. I shall treat her with
all the attention that a pretty young wife can ask for from one who is at once her cousin,
her husband's friend and a lieutenant in His Majesty's provincial guards.
(He goes into the garden room.)
SIXTH SCENE.
BRANDT (alone).
Well, now the storm has broken over my head, and much worse than I had feared. And I
myself wrote to him about Louise. Oh, what a fool I am! How can a man who is so
clever act so stupidly? Adolf will fall in love with Louise ten times as much, simply
because she
is married. That's the way men are. But I cannot allow that. I have duties to myself.
Something must be done . . . . But what? . . . If I were to send my wife to Copenhagen to
my sister, and meanwhile kept Hanne here . . . . But what use is that? He would soon
look up my wife, and then what is bad could become worse. But Hanne . . . what about
her! Oh, that is a great idea, but risky. She is pretty and gentle, and how powerful is the
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