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 Solness.

[Uneasily, startled.] Has he?

Brovik.

If you would give your consent.

Solness.

What sort of work do you mean?

Brovik.

[With some hesitation.] He can have the building of that villa out at Lövstrand.

Solness.

That! Why I am going to build that myself.

Brovik.

Oh you don't much care about doing it.

Solness.

[Flaring up.] Don't care! I! Who dares to say that?

Brovik.

You said so yourself just now.

Solness. Oh, never mind what I say.—Would they give Ragnar the building of that villa?

Brovik.

Yes. You see, he knows the family. And then—just for the fun of the thing—he has made drawings and estimates and so forth