[Stops and looks at him.] Have you several nurseries?

Solness.

There are three nurseries in the house.

Hilda.

That’s a lot. Then I suppose you have a great many children?

Solness.

No. We have no child. But now you can be the child here, for the time being.

Hilda.

For to-night, yes. I shall not cry. I mean to sleep as sound as a stone.

Solness.