Mrs. Solness: You do far too much for me.
Solness: I can't bear to hear you say that. Stick to what I said. Things 'll be easier in the new place.
Mrs. Solness (lamenting): Oh heavens, easier! Halvard, you can never build up a real home again for me. This is no home; It will be just as desolate, as empty there as here.
[Hilda Wangel comes in.
Hilda: Good-morning, Mr. Solness!
Solness (nods): Slept well?
Hilda: Deliciously! As if in a cradle. Oh, I lay and stretched myself like—like a princess. But I dreamed I was falling over a precipice. It's tremendously thrilling when you fall and fall——
Mrs. Solness (ready to go out): I must go into town now, Halvard. (To Hilda) And I'll try to get one or two things that may be of use to you.
Hilda: Oh, you dear, sweet Mrs. Solness. You're frightfully kind——