His Wife.

Oh, it looks like a ruined castle!

The Man.

And here—on that "ruined castle," as you call it (just where I have put that mark in the centre)—I will build me a stately mansion.

His Wife.

But it will be so cold up there—so windy?

The Man.

Nay, I shall give the mansion stout walls and huge windows of plate-glass; and then at night, when the winter storms are raging and the fjord is tossing below, we shall draw the curtains over the windows, and heap up a roaring fire (I shall make enormous fireplaces, you know—large enough to hold whole trunks of trees, whole beams of pine).

His Wife.

Ah! it will be warm enough then.