- I have borne this because I pitied you and hoped that you would
soon have enough of it and come back to me. - But now that on top of it
all you do this, now I shall yield nothing more, nothing. A marriage
cannot be dissolved. - Off with you, man, - you are crazy or drunk.
That can be your only excuse."
"I go, Lucia, - but understand me well, I am going for good. You will
not see me again."
"Are you going to her? And what shall you live on?"
"I don't know. Surely not on your money."
"And the children?"
"I shall gladly see the children if they will see me. But they won't,
you will surely see to that."
"I'll see to it. You shan't see them. Poor children!"
"Be good to them, Lucia, and advise them to get entangled in lies as
little as possible. For some people it is distressing. Others are
better able to cope with it. Good-bye! So we need not hope for a
reconciliation or an agreement between us, need we?"
"Never! I swear it by God and by my innocent children."
"I do not swear, but you need not fear that I shall make any further
attempts.
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