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

HANNE.
In Mrs. Norager's house in Sorø, with a large company that was there last year. (Aside.) I
should not have said that.
ADOLF.
And you were there and I did not know it? How did that happen?
HANNE.
I don't know . . . there were so many strangers, and you were only there for the dinner.
ADOLF.
But that was a great misfortune! Think, if I had made your acquaintance then, perhaps
you would not now be . . . so . . . yes, so we would not now be so strange to one another.
HANNE.
No, that is true. I also have thought about that today.
ADOLF.
Really? Oh, what a pity it is that we have not known each other since childhood. I
definitely believe I would have become better and more sensible if I had known you and
your sister earlier.
HANNE.
Oh, no! It is rather we who would have benefitted by it.
This is a pure child of nature!
ADOLF (aside).
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