Hilda.
That's what you promised.
Solness.
And give you a kingdom as well?
Hilda.
[Looks up at the ceiling.] Why not? Of course it need not have been an actual, every-day sort of a kingdom.
Solness.
But something else just as good?
Hilda.
Yes, at least as good. [Looks at him a moment.] I thought, if you could build the highest church-towers in the world, you could surely manage to raise a kingdom of one sort or another as well.
Solness.
[Shakes his head.] I can't quite make you out, Miss Wangel.
Hilda.
Can you not? To me it seems all so simple.
Solness.
No, I can't make up my mind whether you mean all you say, or are simply having a joke with me.
Hilda.
[Smiles.] Making fun of you, perhaps? I, too?
Solness.
Yes, exactly. Making fun—of both of us. [Looks at her.] Is it long since you found out that I was married?
