[Looks up at the ceiling.] Why not? Of course it need not have been an actual, every-day sort of a kingdom.

Solness.

But something else just as good?

Hilda.

Yes, at least as good. [Looks at him a moment.] I thought, if you could build the highest church-towers in the world, you could surely manage to raise a kingdom of one sort or another as well.

Solness.

[Shakes his head.] I can’t quite make you out, Miss Wangel.

Hilda.

Can you not? To me it seems all so simple.

Solness.