never forget that it is you we have to thank for being able to
live as we do--for being able to live at all.

ELLA RENTHEIM.
Is that all?

MRS. BORKMAN.
Oh, that is the sort of thing that rankles; I feel that in my
own heart.

ELLA RENTHEIM.
But that is very much what Erhart knew already.

MRS. BORKMAN.
When he came home to me, he imagined that you did it all out
of goodness of heart. [Looks malignly at her.] Now he does not
believe that any longer, Ella.

ELLA RENTHEIM.
Then what does he believe now?

MRS. BORKMAN.
He believes what is the truth. I asked him how he accounted
for the fact that Aunt Ella never came here to visit us----

ELLA RENTHEIM.
[Interrupting.] He knew my reasons already!

MRS. BORKMAN.
He knows them better now. You had got him to believe that it