But you have been—— [To RAGNAR.] Well, leave them here, then.
Very well.
And go home at once to your father.
Yes, I suppose I must.
[As if in desperation.] Ragnar—you must not ask me to do what is beyond my power! Do you hear, Ragnar? You must not!
No, no. I beg you pardon—
[He bows, and goes out by the corner door. HILDA goes over and
sits down on a chair near the mirror.
[Looks angrily at SOLNESS.] That was a very ugly thing to do.
Do you think so, too?
Yes, it was horribly ugly—and hard and bad and cruel as well.