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 Orphanage was to deaden all rumours and set every doubt at rest.

Manders.

In that you have certainly not missed your aim, Mrs. Alving.

Mrs. Alving.

And besides, I had one other reason. I was determined that Oswald, my own boy, should inherit nothing whatever from his father.

Manders.

Then it is Alving's fortune that?

Mrs. Alving.

Yes. The sums I have spent upon the Orphanage, year by year, make up the amount—I have reckoned it up precisely—the amount which made Lieutenant Alving "a good match" in his day.

Manders.

I don't understand

Mrs. Alving.

It was my purchase-money. I do not choose that that money should pass into Oswald's hands. My son shall have everything from me—everything.

Oswald Alving enters through the second door to the right; he has taken off his hat and overcoat in the hall.

Mrs. Alving.

[Going towards him.] Are you back again already? My dear, dear boy!