Mrs. Solness.

Debt, do you say? But you owe no one anything, Halvard!

Solness.

[Softly, with emotion.] I owe a boundless debt to you—to you—to you, Aline.

Mrs. Solness.

[Rises slowly.] What is behind all this? You may just as well tell me at once.

Solness.

But there is nothing behind it! I have never done you any wrong—not wittingly and wilfully, at any rate. And yet—and yet it seems as though a crushing debt rested upon me and weighed me down.

Mrs. Solness.

A debt to me?