Very well indeed. Princess Hilda of—of—what was to be the name of the kingdom?

Hilda.

Pooh! I won’t have anything to do with that stupid kingdom. I have set my heart upon quite a different one!

Solness.

[Has leaned back in the chair, still gazing at her.] Isn’t it strange——? The more I think of it now, the more it seems to me as though I had gone about all these years torturing myself with—h’m——

Hilda.

With what?

Solness.

With the effort to recover something—some experience, which I seemed to have forgotten. But I never had the least inkling of what it could be.

Hilda.