Part 59 (1/2)

But I have seen him with my own eyes right up at the top of a high church-tower!

MRS. SOLNESS.

Yes, I hear people talk of that; but it is utterly impossible--

SOLNESS.

[Vehemently.] Impossible--impossible, yes! But there I stood all the same!

MRS. SOLNESS.

O, how can you say so, Halvard? Why, you can't even bear to go out on the second-storey balcony here. You have always been like that.

SOLNESS.

You may perhaps see something different this evening.

MRS. SOLNESS.

[In alarm.] No, no, no! Please G.o.d I shall never see that. I will write at once to the doctor--and I am sure he won't let you do it.

SOLNESS.

Why, Aline--!

MRS. SOLNESS.

Oh, you know you're ill, Halvard. This proves it! Oh G.o.d--Oh G.o.d!

[She goes hastily out to the right.

HILDA.

[Looks intently at him.] Is it so, or is it not?

SOLNESS.

That I turn dizzy?

HILDA.