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Oswald.
Who should do it if not you?
Mrs. Alving.
I! your mother!
Oswald.
For that very reason.
Mrs. Alving.
I, who gave you life!
Oswald.
I never asked you for life. And what sort of a life have you given me? I will not have it! You shall take it back again!
Mrs. Alving.
Help! Help! [She runs out into the hall.
Oswald.
[Going after her.] Do not leave me! Where are you going?
Mrs. Alving.
[In the hall.] To fetch the doctor, Oswald! Let me pass!
Oswald.
[Also outside.] You shall not go out. And no one shall come in. [The locking of a door is heard.
Mrs. Alving.
[Comes in again.] Oswald! Oswald—my child!
Oswald.
[Follows her.] Have you a mother's heart for me
