Johan: What do you mean?

Martha: Oh, nothing.

Johan: You do not seem to be very glad to see me again.

Martha: I have waited so long, Johan--too long.

Johan: Waited? For me to come?

Martha: Yes.

Johan. And why did you think I would come?

Martha: To atone for the wrong you had done.

Johan: I?

Martha: Have you forgotten that it was through you that a woman
died in need and in shame? Have you forgotten that it was through
you that the best years of a young girl's life were embittered?

Johan: And you can say such things to me? Martha, has your
brother never--?

Martha: Never what?

Johan: Has he never--oh, of course, I mean has he never so much
as said a word in my defence?