NURZUR ANSICHT NICHTFÜRVERTRIEBAUFFÜHRUNGEN DURCH MUSIKUNDBÜHNE

You are like a stranger to me and I´m indifferent to you, completely indifferent.

RUTH:

How did that happen? All of a sudden?

GUNVOR:

No, it´s been a while.

RUTH:

A while? What do you mean? Is it over?

GUNVOR: Yes.

RUTH: Are you serious?

GUNVOR: Yes, I´m serious.

RUTH: I have to go. Go!

(She wants to go. GUNVOR is holding her back, but RUTH gets away and runs off. She stops. Listening, but no one is following her…)

RUTH:

NOTHING EXISTS, NOTHING BUT THE TREMBLING OF EMPTINESS HERE IN MY CHEST.

OH, ALL THE WORDS YOU GAVE ME, ARE THEY GONE NOW? ARE THEY GONE? DOESN´T SHE UNDERSTAND HOW MUCH I NEED HER? TIME AND AGAIN SHE CARESSED ME... WELL, I KNOW SHE LOVED ME.

(A flashback, to Trondheim:)

RUTH: In Trondheim, I remember it well. We were downhearted. A nasty weather that autumn. It rained continuously, the sky was grey. I had found another room for us, on a farm at Søberg, outside the city. We were in a café. Gunvor wanted to return to Oslo. I was distressed and upset.

(RUTH gets up, as if she´s leaving. GUNVOR stops her.)