The Master Builder Part 73

The Master Builder Part 73

That neither you nor I will see.


HILDA.


[With uncontrollable vehemence.] I will se it! I will and I must see it!


RAGNAR.


But he will not do it. He simply dare not do it. For you see he cannot get over this infirmity--master builder though he be.


MRS. SOLNESS comes from the house on to the verandah.


MRS. SOLNESS.


[Looks around.] Is he not here? Where has he gone to?


RAGNAR.


Mr. Solness is down with the men.


HILDA.


He took the wreath with him.


MRS. SOLNESS.


[Terrified.] Took the wreath with him! Oh G.o.d! oh G.o.d! Brovik--you must go down to him! Get him to come back here!


RAGNAR.


Shall I say you want to speak to him, Mrs. Solness?


MRS. SOLNESS.


Oh yes, do!--No, no--dont say that _I_ want anything! You can say that somebody is here, and that he must come at once.


RAGNAR.


Good. I will do so, Mrs. Solness.


[He goes down the flight of steps and away through the garden.


MRS. SOLNESS.


Oh, Miss w.a.n.gel, you cant think how anxious I feel about him.


HILDA.


Is there anything in this to be terribly frightened about?


MRS. SOLNESS.


Oh yes; surely you can understand. Just think, if he were really to do it! If he should take it into his head to climb up the scaffolding!


HILDA.


[Eagerly.] Do you think he will?


MRS. SOLNESS.


Oh, one can never tell what he might take into his head. I am afraid there is nothing he mightnt think of doing.


HILDA.


Aha! Perhaps you too think he is--well--?


MRS. SOLNESS.


Oh, I dont know what to think about him now. The doctor has been telling me all sorts of things; and putting it all together with several things I have heard him say--


DR. HERDAL looks out, at the door.


DR. HERDAL.


Is he not coming soon?


MRS. SOLNESS.


Yes, I think so. I have sent for him at any rate.