But now, if your wife---? Suppose, with her delicate health, all
this tries her too much?


SOLNESS.

Even then--I might almost say--it can make no difference. I must
keep Kaia Fosli. No one else could fill her place.


DR. HERDAL.

No one else?


SOLNESS.

[Curtly.] No, no one.


DR. HERDAL.

[Drawing his chair closer.] Now listen to me, my dear Mr. Solness.
May I ask you a question, quite between ourselves?


SOLNESS.

By all means.