to the altar than Johanna was when Engstrand married her?

MANDERS. Well, but there is a world of difference between the two
cases--

MRS. ALVING. Not so much difference after all--except in the price:--
a miserable three hundred dollars and a whole fortune.

MANDERS. How can you compare such absolutely dissimilar cases? You
had taken counsel with your own heart and with your natural
advisers.

MRS. ALVING. [Without looking at him.] I thought you understood
where what you call my heart had strayed to at the time.

MANDERS. [Distantly.] Had I understood anything of the kind, I
should not have been a daily guest in your husband's house.

MRS. ALVING. At any rate, the fact remains that with myself I took
no counsel whatever.

MANDERS. Well then, with your nearest relatives--as your duty bade
you--with your mother and your two aunts.

MRS. ALVING. Yes, that is true. Those three cast up the account for
me. Oh, it's marvellous how clearly they made out that it would be
downright madness to refuse such an offer. If mother could only see
me now, and know what all that grandeur has come to!

MANDERS. Nobody can be held responsible for the result. This, at