Yes, I do indeed. If you are content to go about here teaching all these people——
Solness.
[With a slight start.] Well, and why not?
Hilda.
[Rises, half serious, half laughing.] No indeed, Mr. Solness! What can be the good of that? No one but you should be allowed to build. You should stand quite alone—do it all yourself. Now you know it.
Solness.
[Involuntarily.] Hilda——!
Hilda.
Well!
Solness.