[As before.] I look so ugly with it on.

[Smiling.] Then you don't like to look ugly, Kaia?

[Half glancing up at him.] Not for all the world. Not in your eyes.

[Strokes her hair gently.] Poor, poor little Kaia—

[Bending her head.] Hush—they can hear you!

[SOLNESS strolls across the room to the right, turns and pauses
at the door of the draughtsmen's office.

Has any one been here for me?

[Rising.] Yes, the young couple who want a villa built, out at Lovstrand.

[Growling.] Oh, those two! They must wait. I am not quite clear about the plans yet.

[Advancing, with some hesitation.] They were very anxious to have the drawings at once.