SOLNESS.

[Kisses her hair.] Kaia--Kaia!


KAIA.

[Sinks down before him.] Oh, how good you are to me! How unspeakably
good you are!


SOLNESS.

[Vehemently.] Get up! For goodness' sake get up! I think I hear
some one.
[He helps her to rise. She staggers over to the desk.


MRS. SOLNESS enters by the door on the right. She looks thin
and wasted with grief, but shows traces of bygone beauty.
Blonde ringlets. Dressed with good taste, wholly in black.
Speaks some-what slowly and in a plaintive voice.


MRS. SOLNESS.

[In the doorway.] Halvard!