HERDAL.
[Playfully, with a glance at HILDA.] Oh that I will, you may be
very certain! [Laughs.] So your prediction has come true, Mr.
Solness!
SOLNESS.
How so?
DR. HERDAL.
The younger generation did come knocking at your door.
SOLNESS.
[Cheerfully.] Yes, but in a very different way from what I meant.
DR. HERDAL.
Very different, yes. That's undeniable.
[He goes out by the hall-door. SOLNESS opens the door on the
right and speaks into the side room.
SOLNESS.
Aline! Will you come in here, please. Here is a friend of yours--
Miss Wangel.
MRS. SOLNESS.
[Appears in the doorway.] Who do you say it is? [Sees HILDA.]. Oh,
is it you, Miss Wangel?
SOLNESS.
Miss Wangel has this moment arrived; and she would like to stay the
night here.
MRS. SOLNESS.
Here with us? Oh yes, certainly.
SOLNESS.
Till she can get her things a little in order, you know.
MRS. SOLNESS.
I will do the best I can for you. It's no more than my duty. I
suppose your trunk is coming on later?
HILDA.
I have no trunk.
MRS. SOLNESS.
Well, it will be all right, I daresay. In the meantime, you must
excuse my leaving you here with my husband, until I can get a room
made a little more comfortable for you.
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