[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——