Yes. Suppose the fault was mine—in a certain sense.

Hilda.

Your fault! The fire!

Solness.

All of it; the whole thing. And yet, perhaps—I may not have had anything to do with it.

Hilda.

[Looks at him with a troubled expression.] Oh, Mr. Solness—if you can talk like that, I am afraid you must be—ill, after all.

Solness.

H’m—I don’t think I shall ever be of quite sound mind on that point.

Ragnar Brovik cautiously opens the little door in the left-hand corner. Hilda comes forward.