Rather biting, yes—and they would want Aline to find it thoroughly snug and warm when she came home.
Hilda.
I suppose she is very chilly by nature?
Solness.
She is. And as we drove home, we were to see the smoke.
Hilda.
Only the smoke?
Solness.
The smoke first. But when we came up to the garden gate, the whole of the old timber-box was to be a rolling mass of flames.—That is how I wanted it to be, you see.
Hilda.