HILDA.
Oh, why, why could it not have happened so!
SOLNESS.
You may well say that, Hilda.
HILDA.
Well, but now listen, Mr. Solness. Are you perfectly certain that
the fire was caused by that little crack in the chimney!
SOLNESS.
No, on the contrary--I am perfectly certain that the crack in the
chimney had nothing whatever to do with the fire.
HILDA.
What!
SOLNESS.
It has been clearly ascertained that the fire broke out in a clothes-
cupboard--in a totally different part of the house.
HILDA.
Then what is all this nonsense you are talking about the crack in
the chimney!
SOLNESS.
May I go on talking to you a little, Hilda?
HILDA.
Yes, if you'll only talk sensibly---
SOLNESS.
I will try to. [He moves his chair nearer.
HILDA.
Out with it, then, Mr. Solness.
SOLNESS.
[Confidentially.] Don't you agree with me, Hilda, that there exist
special, chosen people who have been endowed with the power and
faculty if desiring a thing, craving for a thing, willing a thing--
so persistently and so--so inexorably--that at last it has to happen?
Don't you believe that?
HILDA.
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