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Hilda.
The impossible?
Solness.
I had never before been able to climb up to a great, free height. But that day I did it.
Hilda.
[Leaping up.] Yes, yes, you did!
SOLNESS.
And when I stood there, high over everything, and was hanging the wreath over the vane, I said to him: Hear me now, thou Mighty One! From this day forward I will be a free builder—I too, in my sphere—just as thou in thine. I will never more build churches for thee—only homes for human beings.
Hilda.
[With great sparkling eyes.] That was the song that I heard through the air!
Solness.
But afterwards his turn came.
Hilda.
What do you mean by that?
Solness.
[Looks despondently at her.] Building homes for human beings—is not worth a rap, Hilda.
Hilda.
Do you say that now?
