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—