SOLNESS.

But you don't now? Not in the least?


KAIA.

[Passionately, clasping hands and holding them out towards him.] Oh,
you know very well there is only one person I care for now! I shall
never care for any one else.


SOLNESS.

Yes, you say that. And yet you go away from me--leave me alone here
with everything on my hands.


KAIA.

But could I not stay with you, even if Ragnar---?


SOLNESS.

[Repudiating the idea.] No, no, that is quite impossible. If Ragnar
leaves me and starts work on his own account, then of course he will
need you himself.