] Yes, but that is just what
makes me so horribly afraid.
DR. HERDAL.
Afraid? Because you have the luck on your side!
SOLNESS.
It terrifies me--terrifies me every hour of the day. For sooner or
later the luck must turn, you see.
DR. HERDAL.
Oh nonsense! What should make the luck turn?
SOLNESS.
[With firm assurance.] The younger generation!
DR. HERDAL.
Pooh! The younger generation! You are not laid on the shelf yet, I
should hope. Oh no--your position here is probably firmer now than
it has ever been.
SOLNESS.
The luck will turn. I know it--I feel the day approaching. Some
one or other will take it into his head to say: Give me a chance!
And then all the rest will come clamouring after him, and shake
their fists at me and shout: Make room--make room--! Yes, just
you see, doctor--presently the younger generation will come knocking
at my door---
DR. HERDAL.
[Laughing.] Well, and what if they do?
SOLNESS.
What if they do? Then there's an end of Halvard Solness.
[There is a knock at the door on the left.
SOLNESS.
[Starts.] What's that? Did you not hear something?
DR.
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