Dr. Herdal.
[Laughs a little.] No, no; my conscience is perfectly robust—always was.
Hilda.
Are you quite quite sure that, when you went indoors with dear Mrs. Solness that afternoon, and left me alone with my Master Builder, you did not foresee—perhaps wish—intend, even a little, that—— H'm?
Dr. Herdal.
That you would talk the poor man into clambering up that tower? You want to drag Me into that business now!
Hilda.
[Teasingly.] Yes, I certainly think that then you went on exactly like a troll.
Dr. Herdal.
[With uncontrollable emotion.] Hilda, there is not a corner of me safe from you! Yes, I see now that must have been the way of it. Then I was a troll in that, too! But isn't it terrible the price I have had to pay for it? To have a wife who—— No, I shall never roll a pill again—never, never!