[Feels blindly for a chair and sits down.] Halvard—for God’s sake——

Solness.

But you are wrong, both you and the doctor. I am not in the state you imagine.

[He walks up and down the room. Mrs. Solness follows him anxiously with her eyes. Finally he goes up to her.

Solness.

[Calmly.] In reality there is nothing whatever the matter with me.

Mrs. Solness.

No, there isn’t, is there? But then what is it that troubles you so?

Solness.

Why this, that I often feel ready to sink under this terrible burden of debt——