Yes, but even if this were so——?

Solness.

It is so! It is so! I know it!

Hilda.

Well, but in any case it is not your fault.

Solness.

[Fixes his eyes on her, and nods slowly.] Ah, that is the great, the terrible question. That is the doubt that is gnawing me—night and day.

Hilda.

That?

Solness.