SOLNESS _(looking at him_): Is it Miss Wangel
you are sitting there thinking about?
you are sitting there thinking about?
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_You_ are the very one I have most needed.
HILDA (_with happy, wondering eyes_): Oh, heavens, how
lovely!
SOLNESS: What?
HILDA: Then I _have_ my kingdom!
SOLNESS _(involuntarily)_: Hilda!
HILDA _(with quivering lips): Almost_--I was going to say.
[_She goes out_. SOLNESS _follows her_.
ACT II
SCENE. --_A small drawing-room in the house of_ SOLNESS. SOLNESS _is
examining_ RAGNAR BROVIK'S _drawings_. MRS. SOLNESS _is
attending to her flowers_.
SOLNESS: Is she still asleep?
MRS.
SOLNESS _(looking at him_): Is it Miss Wangel
you are sitting there thinking about? She was up long
ago.
SOLNESS: Oh, was she? So we've found a use for one
of our three nurseries, after all, Aline, now that Hilda
occupies one of them.
MRS. SOLNESS: Yes, we have. Their emptiness is
dreadful.
SOLNESS: We'll get on far better after this, Aline.
Things will be easier.
MRS. SOLNESS: Because _she_ has come?
SOLNESS _(checking himself_): I mean when once we've
moved into our new house. It's for your sake I've
built it.
MRS. SOLNESS: You do far too much for me.
SOLNESS: I can't bear to hear you say that.
HILDA (_with happy, wondering eyes_): Oh, heavens, how
lovely!
SOLNESS: What?
HILDA: Then I _have_ my kingdom!
SOLNESS _(involuntarily)_: Hilda!
HILDA _(with quivering lips): Almost_--I was going to say.
[_She goes out_. SOLNESS _follows her_.
ACT II
SCENE. --_A small drawing-room in the house of_ SOLNESS. SOLNESS _is
examining_ RAGNAR BROVIK'S _drawings_. MRS. SOLNESS _is
attending to her flowers_.
SOLNESS: Is she still asleep?
MRS.
SOLNESS _(looking at him_): Is it Miss Wangel
you are sitting there thinking about? She was up long
ago.
SOLNESS: Oh, was she? So we've found a use for one
of our three nurseries, after all, Aline, now that Hilda
occupies one of them.
MRS. SOLNESS: Yes, we have. Their emptiness is
dreadful.
SOLNESS: We'll get on far better after this, Aline.
Things will be easier.
MRS. SOLNESS: Because _she_ has come?
SOLNESS _(checking himself_): I mean when once we've
moved into our new house. It's for your sake I've
built it.
MRS. SOLNESS: You do far too much for me.
SOLNESS: I can't bear to hear you say that.