'Yes, but I was with Papa and Mama, and they
weren't hard like you; they said I had been married to him, and weren't
unkind to me at all. It isn't every one that looks at things like you do,'
'You don't want that candle alight now Ragnhild's gone, do you?' said the
Captain. 'It looks so out of place to have it burning there beside the
lamp--as if it were ashamed.' 'Ashamed of me,' she says quickly. 'Oh yes,
that was what you meant. But you've been to blame as well.' 'Don't
misunderstand me,' he says. 'I know I've been to blame. But that doesn't
make your part any better.' 'Oh, you think not? Well, of all the.... So
yours doesn't count, then?' 'Yes, I say I've been to blame, not in the way
you mean, but in other ways--in old things and new.' 'Oh, indeed!' 'Yes,
but I don't come home bringing the fruits of it under my heart to you.'
'No,' says Fruen, 'but you know it was you all along that wouldn't ...
that didn't want us to have children. And I didn't want it, either, but
you ought to have known better.
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