[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.