OSWALD. I saw her face flush, and then she said, "Yes, I should
like it of all things." "Ah, well," I replied, "it might perhaps be
managed"--or something like that.

MRS. ALVING. And then?

OSWALD. Of course I had forgotten all about it; but the day before
yesterday I happened to ask her whether she was glad I was to stay
at home so long--

MRS. ALVING. Yes?

OSWALD. And then she gave me such a strange look, and asked, "But
what's to become of my trip to Paris?"

MRS. ALVING. Her trip!

OSWALD. And so it came out that she had taken the thing seriously;
that she had been thinking of me the whole time, and had set to
work to learn French--

MRS. ALVING. So that was why--!

OSWALD. Mother--when I saw that fresh, lovely, splendid girl
standing there before me--till then I had hardly noticed her--but
when she stood there as though with open arms ready to receive me--

MRS. ALVING. Oswald!