urged in your excuse--

Rosmer. Oh, how little you really know me!

Kroll. Do not interrupt me. What I want to say is this. If you
definitely must continue living with Miss West, it is absolutely
necessary that you should conceal the revolution of opinion--I
mean the distressing apostasy--that she has beguiled you into. Let
me speak! Let me speak! I say that, if you are determined to go
on with this folly, for heaven's sake hold any variety of ideas
or opinions or beliefs you like--but keep your opinions to
yourself. It is a purely personal matter, and there is not the
slightest necessity to go proclaiming it all over the
countryside.

Rosmer. It is a necessity for me to abandon a false and equivocal
position.

Kroll. But you have a duty towards the traditions of your family,
Rosmer! Remember that! From time immemorial Rosmersholm has been
a stronghold of discipline and order, of respect and esteem for
all that the best people in our community have upheld and
sanctioned. The whole neighbourhood has taken its
tone from Rosmersholm. If the report gets about that you
yourself have broken with what I may call the Rosmer family
tradition, it will evoke an irreparable
state of unrest.

Rosmer. My dear Kroll, I cannot see the matter in that light. It
seems to me that it is my imperative duty to bring a little light