Baron monologue — Plays by August Strindberg, First Series

Calm yourself, my dear. It is not exactly the proper place to tell you what I have said before: that there is only one friend and one home--but we might start over again!--Well, heaven knows! No, we cannot do it. You have gone too far. It is all over. And this last--yes, let it be the last! And it had to come after all the rest. No, we are enemies for life! And if I let you go away with the child now, then you might marry again--I see that now. And my child might have a step-father; and I should have to watch another man going about with my wife and child--Or I might myself be going about with somebody else's wench hanging on my arm. No! Either you or I! One of us must be struck down! You or I!