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 Solness.

I believe there is scarcely a corner in me that is safe from you.

Hilda.

[Looks towards the bow-window.] Up there, then. Right up there

Solness.

[Approaches her.] You might have the topmost room in the tower, Hilda—there you might live like a princess.

Hilda.

[Indefinably, between earnest and jest.] Yes, that is what you promised me.

Solness.

Did I really?

Hilda.

Fie, Mr. Solness! You said I should be a princess, and that you would give me a kingdom. And then you went andWell!

Solness. [Cautiously.] Are you quite certain that this is not a dream—a fancy, that has fixed itself in your mind?

Hilda.

[Sharply.] Do you mean that you did not do it?

Solness.

I scarcely know myself. [More softly.] But now I know so much for certain, that I-