[Places himself in front of her.] Do you mean to say you don’t find a kind of lurking, hidden meaning in the most innocent word I happen to say?
Mrs. Solness.
I, do you say? I do that?
Solness.
[Laughs.] Ho-ho-ho! It’s natural enough, Aline! When you have a sick man on your hands——
Mrs. Solness.
[Anxiously.] Sick? Are you ill, Halvard?
Solness.
[Violently.] A half-mad man then! A crazy man! Call me what you will.
Mrs. Solness.