Then let me see you stand free and high up!
[Sadly.] Oh Hilda—it is not every day that I can do that.
[Passionately.] I will have you do it! I will have it! [Imploringly.] Just once more, Mr. Solness! Do the impossible once again!
[Stands and looks deep into her eyes.] If I try it, Hilda, I will stand up there and talk to him as I did that time before.
[In rising excitement.] What will you say to him?
I will say to him: Hear me, Mighty Lord—thou may'st judge me as seems best to thee. But hereafter I will build nothing but the loveliest thing in the world—
[Carried away.] Yes—yes—yes!
SOLNESS. —build it together with a princess, whom I love—
Yes, tell him that! Tell him that!
Yes. And then I will say to him: Now I shall go down and throw my arms round her and kiss her—