A sickly conscience? What devilry is that?

Hilda.

I mean that your conscience is feeble—too delicately built, as it were—hasn’t strength to take a grip of things—to lift and bear what is heavy.

Solness.

[Growls.] H’m! May I ask, then, what sort of a conscience one ought to have?

Hilda.

I should like your conscience to be—to be thoroughly robust.

Solness.

Indeed? Robust, eh? Is your own conscience robust, may I ask?

Hilda.