“I thought I heard a cry.”

“A cry! Are you going mad, Erik? Whom do you expect to give a cry, in this house?⁠ ⁠… I cried out, because you hurt me! I heard nothing.”

“I don’t like the way you said that!⁠ ⁠… You’re trembling.⁠ ⁠… You’re quite excited.⁠ ⁠… You’re lying!⁠ ⁠… That was a cry, there was a cry!⁠ ⁠… There is someone in the torture-chamber!⁠ ⁠… Ah, I understand now!”

“There is no one there, Erik!”

“I understand!”

“No one!”

“The man you want to marry, perhaps!”

“I don’t want to marry anybody, you know I don’t.”

Another nasty chuckle.