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Hilda.

Is that your new house?

Solness.

Yes.

Hilda.

The house you are soon going to move into?

Solness.

Yes.

Hilda.

[Looks at him.] Are there nurseries in that house, too?

Solness.

Three, as there are here.

Hilda.

And no child.

Solness.

And there never will be one.

Hilda.

[With a half-smile.] Well, isn't it just as I said——?

Solness.

That——?

Hilda.

That you are a little—a little mad after all.

Solness.

Was that what you were thinking of?

Hilda.

Yes, of all the empty nurseries I slept in.