Only imagine, in a single day

He’s worked a perfect little Idyll out.

Guldstad [slily].

With happy ending, doubtless!

Falk.

You’re aware,

No curtain falls but on a plighted pair.

Thus with the Trilogy’s First Part we’ve reckoned;

But now the poet’s labour-throes begin;

The Comedy of Troth-plight, Part the Second,