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 Kroll. Ah, if you could only make sure of that!

Rebecca.

Come, let us sit down, dear. All three of us. And then I will tell you everything.

Rosmer.

[Seats himself mechanically.] What has come over you, Rebecca? This unnatural calmness—what is it?

Rebecca.

The calmness of resolution. [Seats herself.] Pray sit down too, Rector.

[Rector Kroll seats himself on the ofa.

Rosmer. Resolution, you say? What resolution?

Rebecca.

I am going to give you back what you require in order to live your life. Dear friend, you shall have your happy innocence back again!

Rosmer. What can you mean?

Rebecca.

I have only to tell you something. That will be enough.

Rosmer. Well!

Rebecca.

When I came down here from Finmark—along with Dr. West—it seemed to me that a great, wide