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 fall to pieces, if Oh, how I hate all this good-heartedness!

Rörlund.

My dear Dina, I can very well understand that you must feel oppressed here, but

Dina.

Oh, if I could only go far away! I could get on well enough by myself, if only I lived among people that weren't so—so

Rörlund.

So what?

Dina.

So proper and moral.

Rörlund.

Come, Dina, you do not mean that.

Dina.

Oh, you know very well how I mean it. Every day Hilda and Netta come here that I may take example by them. I can never be as well-behaved as they are, and I will not be. Oh, if only I were far away, I daresay I could be good.

Rörlund.

You are good, my dear Dina.

Dina.

What good does that do me, here?

Rörlund.

Then you are seriously thinking of going away?

Dina.

I would not remain here a day longer, if you were not here.