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

LOUISE.
Hurry up and let's go, before he sees us. I shall explain everything to you.
(She and HANNE run out quickly.) 5
ADOLF.
I shall not keep you any longer. I only wonder if you could tell your lord that I am
waiting for him here.
JOHAN.
He will be here right away. He just ran over to the factory.
(He goes.)
ELEVENTH SCENE.
ADOLF (alone).
My pretty cousin is married then, and to Brandt . . . that is dumb, all things considered.
What am I doing here then? In the last half hour I have thought more about her than I
would care to admit to myself. I thought about her with all the charms that a young
girl, whose heart is still free, can possess, and now . . . how different the relation one feels
oneself in, to a young girl and to a young wife! A young girl has an odor of modesty and
chastity, which no young wife can possess. Yes, all this is certain and true . . . and all the
same, when I ask myself, if Louise now appears less attractive to my imagination, then I
must be candid and answer no. On the way here I often had doubts. I expected to be
disappointed this time as so often before. Now, however . . . I am on the point of
believing that she in particular was meant for me . . . and that she in particular is lost for
me.
5 During the performance of this scene the ladies, if it is found desirable, could trade their silk aprons
instead of shawls, and the dialog could be adjusted for it.
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