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Ebook has 2982 lines and 25720 words, and 60 pages
RAGNAR.
Yes, better wait, father!
BROVIK.
KAIA.
Hush! I hear him on the stairs.
Are they gone?
KAIA.
No.
What is that you are entering, Miss Fosli?
KAIA.
Oh, it is only something that--
SOLNESS.
Let me look at it, Miss Fosli. Kaia!
KAIA.
Well?
SOLNESS.
Why do you always take that shade off when I come?
KAIA.
I look so ugly with it on.
SOLNESS.
Then you don't like to look ugly, Kaia?
KAIA.
Not for all the world. Not in your eyes.
SOLNESS.
Poor, poor little Kaia--
KAIA.
Hush--they can hear you!
Yes, the young couple who want a villa built, out at Lovstrand.
SOLNESS.
Oh, those two! They must wait. I am not quite clear about the plans yet.
RAGNAR.
They were very anxious to have the drawings at once.
SOLNESS.
Yes, of course--so they all are.
BROVIK.
They say they are longing so to get into a house of their own.
SOLNESS.
Yes, yes--we know all that! And so they are content to take whatever is offered them. They get a--a roof over their heads--an address--but nothing to call a home. No thank you! In that case, let them apply to somebody else. Tell them that, the next time they call.
BROVIK.
To somebody else? Are you prepared to give up the commission?
SOLNESS.
Yes, yes, yes, devil take it! If that is to be the way of it--. Rather that, than build away at random. Besides, I know very little about these people as yet.
BROVIK.
The people are safe enough. Ragnar knows them. He is a friend of the family.
SOLNESS.
Oh, safe--safe enough! That is not at all what I mean. Good lord--don't you understand me either? I won't have anything to do with these strangers. They may apply to whom they please, so far as I am concerned.
BROVIK.
Do you really mean that?
SOLNESS.
Yes I do.--For once in a way. Just go in there for moment, Kaia.
KAIA.
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