LADY ANNA. This excessive love ... it is worrying me. Maybe it was
mostly on that account that I delayed agreeing to her departure.
THE JUDGE. There are so many things that worry you. Why doesn't
Ingolf come back? [Kisses her on the cheek.] I will talk to him
about it. [Goes out.]
RANNVEIG [enters]. The servants want to know how many places to
lay for dinner.
LADY ANNA [putting aside her needlework]. Well, I'm coming--[Goes
out.]
RANNVEIG [walks slowly to the centre of the room, stands looking
at the terra cotta statue]. When you dream something, you don't
want to come true, you ought to tell it to some one--better to a
stone than to no one. [Hands folded, she walks slowly up to the
statue, whispering in its ear,] I dreamed of a beautiful and
marvellous diamond palace. I walked around it, but it had no
doors. No one could get in. If any one were inside, he could not
get out. I heard weeping inside the palace. It seemed to tear my
heart. I recognised the weeping?--[She passes her hand over her
eyes, looks at the statue a long time, walks away from it, looks
back at it once more, and goes out.
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