Act 2, Part 3 Summary

Ragnar comes in, hoping for compliments from Solness to take back to Brovik, who seems to be on his deathbed. Solness bluntly tells him that there will be no compliments. He also says that Ragnar can continue to work for him and even marry Kaia, but that he shouldn't think about striking out on his own. Ragnar takes the drawings and prepares to leave, saying he'd better get back home before his father dies. Hilda asks him to leave the drawings so she can look at them. Ragnar agrees, then hurries out.

Hilda berates Solness for doing what she calls a wicked thing to Ragnar, but he says she doesn't understand the facts. When she's about to become even angrier Solness changes the subject, and tells her about a crack in the chimney of the old house that may have been...