... braendte lykke THEY SAT THERE, THE TWO-They sat there, the two, in so cosy a house, through autumn and winter days Then the house burned down Everything lies in ruins The two must grope among the ashes ... the master grew reasonable, the castle turned utterly crazy; the great wing became too little, the little wing fell to ruin Thus we see that, thirty-five years before the date of The Master Builder, ... between the hard, cold, precise outlines of Hedda Gabler and the vague mysterious atmosphere of The Master Builder, in which, though the dialogue is sternly restrained within the limits of prose, the...