Lyngstrand Monologue from The Lady from the Sea

From The Lady from the Sea by Henrik Ibsen

male · melancholic · 48 sec

Not directly; but a little after he said to himself, as it were: "Married--to another man. While I was away." (Ellida: He said that?) Yes. And think--he said it in perfect Norwegian. That man must have learnt foreign languages very easily-- (Ellida: And what then? What else happened?) Well, now the remarkable part is coming--that I shall never forget as long as I live. For he added, and that quite quietly, too: "But she is mine, and mine she shall remain. And she shall follow me, if I should come home and fetch her, as a drowned man from the dark sea."

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