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Solness.

Oh yes, do remind me a little of that, too.

Hilda.

Don't you remember that a great dinner was given in your honour at the Club?

Solness.

Yes, to be sure. It must have been the same afternoon, for I left the place next morning.

Hilda.

And from the Club you were invited to come round to our house to supper.

Solness.

Quite right, Miss Wangel. It is wonderful how all these trifles have impressed themselves on your mind.

Hilda.

Trifles! I like that! Perhaps it was a trifle, too, that I was alone in the room when you came in?

Solness.

Were you alone?

Hilda.

[Without answering him.] You didn't call me a little devil then?

Solness.

No, I suppose I did not.

Hilda.

You said I was lovely in my white dress, and that I looked like a little princess.