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Ghosts 29
of my husband. I shall not speak to-morrow. But now
I will speak out a little to you, as you have spoken to
me. ... I want you to know that after nineteen years
of marriage my husband remained as dissolute in his de
sires as he was when you married us. After Oswald s
birth, I thought Alving seemed to be a little better. But
it did not last long. And then I had to struggle twice
as hard, fighting for life or death, so that nobody should
know what sort of a man my child s father was. I had
my little son to bear it for. But when the last insult
was added ;
when my own servant-maid Then I
swore to myself: This shall come to an end. And so I
took the upper hand in the house the whole control
over him and over everything else. For now I had a
weapon against him, you see; he dared not oppose me.
It was then that Oswald was sent from home. He was
in his seventh year, and was beginning to observe and
ask questions, as children do. That I could not bear.
I thought the child must get poisoned by merely breath
ing the air in this polluted home. That was why I
placed him out. And now you can see, too, why he was
never allowed to set foot inside his home so long as his
father lived. No one knows what it has cost me. . . .
From the day after to-morrow it shall be for me as
though he who is dead had never lived in this house.
No one shall be here but my boy and his mother. (From
within the dining-room comes the noise of a chair over
turned, and at the same moment is heard:)
Regina (sharply, but whispering}. Oswald! take care!
are you mad? let me go!
Mrs. Alving (starts in terror}. Ah! (She stares
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