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78 Hermann Sudermann
That is more than Magda can endure. She is
outraged that she, the mother, who had given up
everything for the sake of her child, who had
slaved, struggled and drudged in order to win a
career and economic independence all for the
sake of the child that she should forswear her
right to motherhood, her right to be true to her
self!
Magda. What what do you say?
Von Keller. Why, it would ruin us. No, no, it is
absurd to think of it. But we can make a little journey
every year to wherever it is being educated. One can
register under a false name; that is not unusual in for
eign parts, and is hardly criminal. And when we are
fifty years old, and other regular conditions have been
fulfilled, that can be arranged, can t it? Then we can,
under some pretext, adopt it, can t we?
Magda. I have humbled myself, I have surrendered
my judgment, I have let myself be carried like a lamb to
the slaughter. But my child I will not leave. Give up
my child to save his career!
Magda orders Von Keller out of the house.
But the old Colonel is unbending. He insists that
his daughter become an honorable woman by
marrying the man who had seduced her. Her
refusal fires his wrath to wild rage.
Schwartze. Either you swear to me now . . . that
you will become the honorable wife of your child s father,
or neither of us two shall go out of this room alive.
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