name of John Gabriel Borkman used to mean! No, no, no--I can
never see him again! Never!

ELLA RENTHEIM.
[Looks at her for a while.] You have a hard heart, Gunhild.

MRS. BORKMAN.
Towards him, yes.

ELLA RENTHEIM.
After all, he is your husband.

MRS. BORKMAN.
Did he not say in court that it was I who began his ruin? That
I spent money so recklessly?

ELLA RENTHEIM.
[Tentatively.] But is there not some truth in that?

MRS. BORKMAN.
Why, it was he himself that made me do it! He insisted on our
living in such an absurdly lavish style----

ELLA RENTHEIM.
Yes, I know. But that is just where you should have restrained
him; and apparently you didn't.

MRS. BORKMAN.
How was I to know that it was not his own money he gave me to
squander? And that he himself used to squander, too--ten times