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[Shrinking back.] Gunhild! [Harshly and threateningly.] I allow no one to come up to my room! [Advancing a step.] I do not ask your permission. [Going towards her.] What do you want with me? I will fight with all my might for you. I will protect you from the powers of evil. The worst "powers of evil" are in yourself, Gunhild! [Harshly.] So be it then. [Menacingly, with upstretched arm.] But this I tell you—he shall bear his father's name! And bear it aloft in honour again. And I will be his mother! I alone! My son's heart shall be mine—mine, and no other's. [She goes out by the tapestry door and shuts it behind her.

[Shaken and shattered.] Borkman, Erhart's life will be wrecked in this storm. There must