Now let us talk calmly. Even if
you could, would you continue to be tied to a man who does not
love you any longer?
HADDA PADDA. She has separated us. _She_ has caught you in the net
of her wantonness. You, too, Ingolf, you, too. ... When I looked
at you, you could see my love in my eyes. But she, she looked at
you through a veil of wantonness, so that your imagination might
create what it liked behind it--? was that what attracted you? I
gave you all that I had. She took back with the left hand what she
had given with her right--was that what attracted you? Ingolf, do
you value such a character? Don't you know how she is? I know you
think she loves you. So she has told them all. Her love is a
remorseless beast of prey. She does not even spare her sister,
though she knows you are the only man I ever loved. But she MUST
have this triumph--this one, too. Are you going to yield to it?
INGOLF. You are mistaken, Hrafnhild. It is not she who parts us. I
feel that even if she did not exist, I could no longer love you as
before.
HADDA PADDA. Haven't I seen you in each other's arms? Had it been
any one else, Ingolf, any one else, I might have tried to bear it;
but SHE, in YOUR arms, that thought I cannot endure.
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