Good morning, Mr. Solness!

[Nods.] Slept well?

Quite deliciously! Like a child in a cradle. Oh—I lay and stretched myself like—like a princess!

[Smiles a little.] You were thoroughly comfortable then?

I should think so.

And no doubt you dreamed, too.

Yes, I did. But that was horrid.

Was it?

Yes, for I dreamed I was falling over a frightfully high, sheer precipice. Do you never have that kind of dream?

Oh yes—now and then—