The Master Builder

Chapter 82

ONE OF THE LADIES.

[Whilst MRS. SOLNESS is carried into the house.] Run down for the doctor--

RAGNAR.

I can"t stir a root--

ANOTHER LADY.

Then call to some one!

RAGNAR.

[Tries to call out.] How is it? Is he alive?

A VOICE.

[Below, in the garden.] Mr. Solness is dead!

OTHER VOICES.

[Nearer.] The head is all crushed.--he fell right into the quarry.

HILDA.

[Turns to RAGNAR, and says quietly.] I can"t see him up there now.

RAGNAR.

This is terrible. So, after all, he could not do it.

HILDA.

[As if in quiet spell-bound triumph.] But he mounted right to the top.

And I heard harps in the air. [Waves her shawl in the air, and shrieks with wild intensity.] My--my Master Builder!

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