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Hedda Gabler Act II · The Henrik Ibsen Library

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  Speaker 1: Act Too of Hedda Gabler by Henrik Ibsen, translated by
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  Speaker 1: Edmund Gussie and William Archer. This is a LibriVox recording.
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  Speaker 1: information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox dot org. Act second.
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  Speaker 1: The room at a testaments as in the first act,
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  Speaker 1: except that the piano has been removed and an elegant
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  Speaker 1: little writing table with bookshelves put in its place. A
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  Speaker 1: smaller table stands near the sofa on the left. Most
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  Speaker 1: of the bouquets have been taken away. Missus Elvestead's bouquet
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  Speaker 1: is upon the large table in front. It is afternoon. Hedda,
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  Speaker 1: dressed to receive callers, is alone in the room. She
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  Speaker 1: stands by the open glass door loading a revolver. The
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  Speaker 1: fellow to it lies in an open pistol case on
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  Speaker 1: the writing table. Hedda looks down the garden and.
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  Speaker 2: So here you are again.
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  Speaker 1: Judge Brack is heard calling from a distance as you
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  Speaker 1: see Missus Tessman Heada raises the pistol and points.
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  Speaker 2: Now, I'll shoot you, Judge Brack.
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  Speaker 3: Brack calling unseen, no, no, no, don't stand aiming at me.
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  Speaker 2: This is what comes of sneaking in the back way?
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  Speaker 1: She fires Brack nearer?
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  Speaker 3: Are you out of your senses?
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  Speaker 2: Dear me? Did I happen to hit you?
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  Speaker 1: Brack still outside?
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  Speaker 3: I wish you would let these pranks alone.
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  Speaker 2: Come in then, judge.
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  Speaker 1: Judge Brack, dressed the stove for a men's party, enters
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  Speaker 1: by the glass door. He carries a light overcoat over
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  Speaker 1: his arm.
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  Speaker 3: What the deuce, haven't you tired of that sport yet?
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  Speaker 3: What are you shooting at?
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  Speaker 4: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: I'm only firing in the air.
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  Speaker 1: Brac gently takes the pistol out of her hand.
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  Speaker 3: Allow me, madam, looks at it. Ah, I know this pistol.
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  Speaker 1: Well looks around.
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  Speaker 3: Where is the case? Ah?
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  Speaker 1: Here it is, lays the pistol in it, and shuts it.
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  Speaker 3: Now we won't play at that game anymore today.
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  Speaker 2: Then, what in Heaven's name would you have me do
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  Speaker 2: with myself?
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  Speaker 3: Have you had no visitors?
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  Speaker 1: Heada closing the glass door, not one?
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  Speaker 2: I suppose all our set are still out of town.
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  Speaker 3: And is Tessman not at home either?
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  Speaker 1: Heada at the writing table, putting the pistol case in
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  Speaker 1: a drawer, which she shuts. No.
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  Speaker 2: He rushed off to his aunt's directly after lunch. He
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  Speaker 2: didn't expect you so early.
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  Speaker 4: Hmm.
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  Speaker 3: How stupid of me not to have thought.
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  Speaker 1: Of that, Heada turning her head to look at him.
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  Speaker 3: Why stupid, because if I had thought of it, I
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  Speaker 3: should have come a little earlier, Heada crossing the room, and.
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  Speaker 2: You would have found no one to receive you. For
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  Speaker 2: I have been in my room changing my dress ever
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  Speaker 2: since lunch.
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  Speaker 3: And is there no sort of little chink that we
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  Speaker 3: could hold a parley through?
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  Speaker 2: You have forgotten to arrange one.
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  Speaker 3: That was another piece of stupidity.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we must just settle down here and wait. Tessaman
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  Speaker 2: is not likely to be back for some time yet.
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  Speaker 3: Never mind, I shall not be impatient.
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  Speaker 1: Heada seats herself in the corner of the sofa. Brec
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  Speaker 1: lays his overcoat over the back of the nearest chair
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  Speaker 1: and sits down, but keeps his head in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: A short silence, they look at each other, Well, Breck
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  Speaker 1: in the same tone, Well I spoke first, Breck, bending
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  Speaker 1: a little.
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  Speaker 3: Forward, Come let us have a cozy little chat, missus.
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  Speaker 1: Header Heada leaning further back in the sofa.
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  Speaker 2: Does it not seem like a whole eternity? Since our
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  Speaker 2: last talk. Of course, I don't count those few words
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  Speaker 2: yesterday evening in this morning.
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  Speaker 3: You mean since our last confidential talk, our last tete
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  Speaker 3: a tete.
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  Speaker 2: Well, yes, since you.
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  Speaker 3: Put it so, not a day past. But I have
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  Speaker 3: wished that you were home again, and.
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  Speaker 2: I have done nothing but wish the same thing.
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  Speaker 3: You really missus, heada. And I thought you had been
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  Speaker 3: enjoying your tour so much.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yes, you may be sure of that.
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  Speaker 3: But Tessaman's letters spoke of nothing but happiness.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, Tessament. You see, he thinks nothing is so delightful
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  Speaker 2: as grubbing in libraries and making copies of old parchments
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  Speaker 2: or whatever.
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  Speaker 1: You call them.
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  Speaker 3: Brack, with a smile of malice, Well, that is his
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  Speaker 3: vocation in life, or part of it at any rate.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, of course, and no doubt when it's your vocation.
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  Speaker 2: But I, oh my dear mister Brack, how mortally bored
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  Speaker 2: I have been?
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  Speaker 1: Breck sympathetically, do.
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  Speaker 3: You really say so? In downright earnest.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you can surely understand it, to go for six
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  Speaker 2: whole months without meeting a soul that knew anything of
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  Speaker 2: our circle or could talk about things we were interested in.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I too should feel that a deprivation.
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  Speaker 2: And then what I found most intolerable of all well,
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  Speaker 2: was being everlastingly in the company of one and the same.
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  Speaker 1: Person Freck with a not of ascent, morning, noon and night.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, at all possible times and seasons, I said, everlastingly
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  Speaker 3: just so. But I should have thought, with our excellent
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  Speaker 3: testament one could.
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  Speaker 2: Tessamen is a specialist, my dear judge, undeniable, and specialists
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  Speaker 2: are not at all amusing to travel with, not in
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  Speaker 2: the long run, at any rate.
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  Speaker 3: Not even the specialist one happens to love.
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  Speaker 2: Don't use that sickening word.
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  Speaker 3: Preck taken Aback, what do you say, missus?
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  Speaker 1: Heada heada half laughing, half irritated?
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  Speaker 2: You should just try it to hear of nothing but
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  Speaker 2: the history of civilization, morning, noon and night, everlastingly, yes, yes, yes,
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  Speaker 2: And then all this about the domestic industry of the
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  Speaker 2: Middle Ages, that's the most disgusting part of it.
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  Speaker 3: Brack, look searchingly at her, But tell me, in that case,
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  Speaker 3: how am I to understand your.
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  Speaker 2: My accepting George Tessman, you.
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  Speaker 3: Mean, well, let us put it so good?
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  Speaker 2: Heavens, do you see anything so wonderful in that?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 3: And no, missus Heada, I.
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  Speaker 2: Had positively danced myself tired, my dear judge, my day.
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  Speaker 1: Was done with a slight shudder.
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  Speaker 2: Oh no, I won't say that, nor think it either.
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  Speaker 1: You have assuredly no reason to oh reasons watching him closely, and.
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  Speaker 2: George Tessman, after all, you must admit that he is
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  Speaker 2: correctness itself.
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  Speaker 3: His correctness and respectability are beyond all question.
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  Speaker 2: And I don't see anything absolutely ridiculous about.
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  Speaker 3: Him, do you ridiculous? No, I shouldn't exactly say so.
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  Speaker 2: Well, and his powers of research at all events are untiring.
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  Speaker 2: I see no reason why he should not one day
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  Speaker 2: come to the front.
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  Speaker 1: After all, Prack looks at her hesitatingly.
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  Speaker 3: I thought that you, like everyone else, expected him to
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  Speaker 3: attain the highest distinction.
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  Speaker 1: Heada with an expression of fatigue.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, so I did. And then, since he was bent
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  Speaker 2: at all hazards on being allowed to provide for me,
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  Speaker 2: I really don't know why I should not have accepted
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  Speaker 2: his offer.
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  Speaker 3: No, if you look at it in that light, it was.
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  Speaker 2: More than my other adorers were prepared to do for me,
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  Speaker 2: My dear judge.
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  Speaker 3: Brack laughing, Well, I can't answer for all the rest,
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  Speaker 3: but as for myself, you know quite well that I
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  Speaker 3: have always entertained a certain respect for the marriage tie,
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  Speaker 3: for marriage as an institution, missus Heada.
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  Speaker 2: Hedda distinctly, Oh, I assure you I have never cherished
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  Speaker 2: any hopes with respect to you.
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  Speaker 3: All I require is a pleasant and intimate interior where
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  Speaker 3: I can make myself useful in every way, and am
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  Speaker 3: free to come and go as a trusted friend of.
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  Speaker 2: The master of the house.
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  Speaker 1: Do you mean fret.
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  Speaker 3: Bowing frankly of the mistress first of all, but of
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  Speaker 3: course of the master too in the second place. Such
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  Speaker 3: a triangular friendship, if I may call it so, is
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  Speaker 3: really a great convenience for all the parties. Let me
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  Speaker 3: tell you, yes.
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  Speaker 2: I have many a time longed for someone to make
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  Speaker 2: a third on our travels. Oh, those railway carriage tete
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  Speaker 2: a tetes.
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  Speaker 3: Fortunately your wedding journey is over now.
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  Speaker 1: Hedda, shaking her head.
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  Speaker 2: Not by a long long way. I have only arrived
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  Speaker 2: at a station on the line.
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  Speaker 3: Well, then the passengers jump out and move about a little,
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  Speaker 3: missus Heada.
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  Speaker 2: I never jump out, really no, because there is always
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  Speaker 2: someone standing.
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  Speaker 3: By to preck laughing ha ha, to look at your ankles,
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  Speaker 3: do you mean precisely well?
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  Speaker 1: But dear me Hedda, with a gesture of repulsion, I.
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  Speaker 2: Won't have it. I would rather keep my seat where
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  Speaker 2: I happen to be and continue the tete a tete.
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  Speaker 3: But suppose a third person were to jump in and
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  Speaker 3: join the couple.
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  Speaker 2: Ah, that is quite another matter.
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  Speaker 3: A trusted, sympathetic.
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  Speaker 2: Friend with a fund of conversation on all sorts of lively.
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  Speaker 3: Topics, and not the least bit of a special.
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  Speaker 1: Heada with an audible sigh.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, that would be a relief.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed, Brac, here's the front door open and glances in
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  Speaker 1: that direction.
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  Speaker 3: The triangle is completed, head.
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  Speaker 2: Half aloud, and on goes the train.
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  Speaker 1: George Tessman, in a gray walking suit with a soft
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  Speaker 1: felt hat, enters from the hall. He has a number
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  Speaker 1: of unbound books under his arm and in his pockets.
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  Speaker 1: Tessaman goes up to the table beside the corner settee.
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  Speaker 5: Ooof what a load for a one day.
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  Speaker 1: All these books, lays them on the table.
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  Speaker 5: I'm positively perspiring, Header, Hello, are you there already? My
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  Speaker 5: dear Jeodge eh.
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  Speaker 1: Bad didn't tell me, Brac rising.
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  Speaker 3: I came into the garden.
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  Speaker 2: What books. Have you got there?
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  Speaker 1: Tessaman stands looking them through?
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  Speaker 5: Some new books on my special subjects.
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  Speaker 2: Quite indispensable to me your special subjects?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, books on his special subjects, missus.
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  Speaker 1: Tessman brackenhead a exchange a confidential smile.
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  Speaker 2: Do you need still more books on your special subjects?
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  Speaker 5: Yes, my dear heada. One can never have too many
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  Speaker 5: of them. Of course, one must keep up with all
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  Speaker 5: that is written and published.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, I suppose one must, Tessman searching among his books.
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  Speaker 5: And look here, I've got hold of Eilert Lovebug's new.
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  Speaker 1: Book too, offering it to her.
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  Speaker 5: Perhaps you would like to glance through it?
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  Speaker 2: Head Eh, no, thank you, or rather afterwards, perhaps.
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  Speaker 5: I looked into it a little on my way home.
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  Speaker 3: Well, what do you think of it? As a specialist?
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  Speaker 5: I think it shows quite remarkable soundness of judgment. He
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  Speaker 5: never wrote like that.
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  Speaker 1: Before putting the books together.
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  Speaker 5: Now I shall take all these into my study. I'm
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  Speaker 5: longing to cut the leaves, and then I must change
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  Speaker 5: my clothes to breck. I suppose we needn't start just yet.
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  Speaker 3: Eh oh, dear no, oh, there is not the slightest hurry.
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  Speaker 5: Well, then I will take my time.
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  Speaker 1: Is going with his books, but stops in the doorway
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  Speaker 1: and turns.
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  Speaker 5: By the bye. Header. Aunt Julia is not coming this evening?
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  Speaker 2: Not coming? Is it that a fair of the bonnet
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  Speaker 2: that keeps her away?
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  Speaker 5: No, not at all. How could you think such a
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  Speaker 5: thing of Aunt Julia? Just fancy? The fact is Aunt
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  Speaker 5: Rena is very ill. She always is, yes, but today
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  Speaker 5: she is much worse than usual. Poor dear.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, then it's only natural that her sister should remain
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  Speaker 2: with her. I must bear my disappointment.
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  Speaker 5: And you can't imagine, dear, how delighted Aunt Julia seemed
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  Speaker 5: to be because you had come home looking so flourishing.
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  Speaker 1: Heada half aloud, rising, oh.
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  Speaker 2: These everlasting aunts?
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  Speaker 1: What heada going to the glass door?
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  Speaker 2: Nothing?
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  Speaker 1: Oh, all right, He goes through the inner room out
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  Speaker 1: to direct.
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  Speaker 3: What bonnet were you talking about?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: It was a little episode with miss Tessamon this morning.
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  Speaker 2: She had laid down her bonnet on the chair.
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  Speaker 1: There, looks at him and smiles.
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  Speaker 2: And I pretended to think it was the servants.
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  Speaker 1: Brac shaking his head.
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  Speaker 3: Naho, my dear missus, heada, how could you do such
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  Speaker 3: a thing to the excellent old lady too?
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  Speaker 1: Heada nervously crossing the room.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you see, these impulses come over me all of
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  Speaker 2: a sudden, and I cannot resist them.
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  Speaker 1: Throws herself down in the easy chair by the stove. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how to explain it, Brack, behind the
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  Speaker 1: easy chair.
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  Speaker 3: You are not really happy, that is at the bottom
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  Speaker 3: of it.
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  Speaker 1: Heada, looking straight before her.
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  Speaker 2: I know of no reason why I should be happy.
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  Speaker 2: Perhaps you can give me one.
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  Speaker 3: Well, amongst other things, because you have got exactly the
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  Speaker 3: home you had set your heart on.
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  Speaker 1: Hedda looks up at him and laughs.
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  Speaker 4: Ha.
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  Speaker 2: Do you too believe in that legend?
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  Speaker 3: Is there nothing in it?
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  Speaker 4: Then? Oh?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there is something in it. Well, there is this
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  Speaker 2: in it that I made use of Tessaman to see
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  Speaker 2: me home from evening parties last summer.
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  Speaker 3: I unfortunately had to go quite a different.
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  Speaker 2: Way, that's true. I know you were going a different
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  Speaker 2: way last summer, Rack.
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  Speaker 3: Laughing, ha, oh fine, missus Heada. Well then you and Tessaman, well.
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  Speaker 2: We happened to pass here one evening. Tessaman, poor fellow
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  Speaker 2: was writhing in the agony of having to find conversation.
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  Speaker 2: So I took pity on the learned man.
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  Speaker 1: Prack smiled.
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  Speaker 3: Doubtfully you took pity.
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  Speaker 2: Hmmm, yes, I really did, And so to help him
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  Speaker 2: out of his torment, I happened to say, in pure
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  Speaker 2: thoughtlessness that I should like to live in this villa.
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  Speaker 3: No more than that, not that evening.
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  Speaker 2: But afterwards, yes, my thoughtlessness had consequences, my dear judge.
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  Speaker 3: Unfortunately that too often happens, missus heada.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. So you see, it was this enthusiasm for Secretary
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  Speaker 2: Faulks villa that first constituted a bond of sympathy between
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  Speaker 2: George Tessaman and me. From that came our engagement and
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  Speaker 2: our marriage, and our wedding journey and all the rest
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  Speaker 2: of it. Well, well, my dear judge, as you make
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  Speaker 2: your bed so you must lie, I could almost say.
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  Speaker 3: This is exquisite, And you really cared not a rap
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  Speaker 3: about it all the time.
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  Speaker 2: No, Heaven knows I didn't.
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  Speaker 3: But now now that we have made it so homelike
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  Speaker 3: for you, oh.
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  Speaker 2: The rooms all seemed to smell of lavender and dried
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  Speaker 2: rose leaves. But perhaps it's Aunt Julia that has brought
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  Speaker 2: that scent with.
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  Speaker 1: Her brack laughing.
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  Speaker 3: No, I think it must be a legacy from the
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  Speaker 3: late Missus secretary fall.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there is an odor of mortality about it. It
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  Speaker 2: reminds me of a bouquet the day after through the.
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  Speaker 1: Ball, clasps her hands behind her head, leans back in
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  Speaker 1: her chair and looks at him.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my, dear judge, you cannot imagine how horribly I
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  Speaker 2: shall bore myself here.
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  Speaker 3: Why should not you too find some sort of vocation
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  Speaker 3: in life, missus.
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  Speaker 2: HEADA a vocation that should attract.
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  Speaker 3: Me if possible. Of course, Heaven.
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  Speaker 2: Knows what sort of a vocation that could be. I
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  Speaker 2: often wonder whether breaking off, but that would never do either.
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  Speaker 3: Who can tell? Let me hear what it is?
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  Speaker 2: Whether I might not get Testamen to go into politics?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, breck laughing testament.
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  Speaker 3: No really, now, political life is not the thing for him,
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  Speaker 3: not at all in his line.
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  Speaker 2: No, I dare say not. But if I could get
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  Speaker 2: him into it all the same.
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  Speaker 3: Why what satisfaction could you find him that? If he
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  Speaker 3: is not fitted for that sort of thing, why should
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  Speaker 3: you want to dry them into it?
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  Speaker 2: Because I am bored, I tell you, after a pause.
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  Speaker 2: So you think it quite out of the question that
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  Speaker 2: Tessaman should ever get into the ministry.
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  Speaker 3: Hmm, you see my dear missus Heada, to get into
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  Speaker 3: the ministry, he would have to be a tolerably rich man.
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  Speaker 1: Heada, rising impatiently.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, there we have it. It is this genteel poverty
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  Speaker 2: I have managed to drop.
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  Speaker 1: Into process the room.
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  Speaker 2: That is what makes life so pitiable, so utterly ludicrous.
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  Speaker 3: For that's what it is now, I should say, the
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  Speaker 3: fault lay elsewhere where. Then you have never gone through
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  Speaker 3: any really stimulating.
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  Speaker 2: Experience, anything serious, you mean, yes.
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  Speaker 3: You may call it so. But now you may perhaps
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  Speaker 3: have one in store.
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  Speaker 1: Heada tossing her head.
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  Speaker 2: Oh you're thinking of the annoyances about this wretched professorship.
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  Speaker 2: But that must be Tessmon's own affair. I assure you
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  Speaker 2: I shall not waste a thought upon it.
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  Speaker 3: No, no, I dare say not. But suppose now that
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  Speaker 3: what people call in elegant language a solemn responsibility were
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  Speaker 3: to come upon you smiling a new responsibility, missus header Heada,
• 18:18
  Speaker 3: angrily be quiet.
• 18:20
  Speaker 2: Nothing of that sort will ever happen, Brack.
• 18:23
  Speaker 3: Warily, we will speak of this again a year hence
• 18:26
  Speaker 3: at the very outside, Heada curtly, I.
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: Have no turn for anything of the sort, Judge, brack
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: no responsibilities.
• 18:35
  Speaker 3: For me, are you so unlike the generality of women
• 18:38
  Speaker 3: as to have no turn for duties?
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: Which heada beside the glass door?
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: Oh be quiet, I tell you. I often think there
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: is only one thing in the world I have any
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: turn for.
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: Brack drawing near.
• 18:49
  Speaker 3: To her, And what is that? If I may ask?
• 18:53
  Speaker 1: Heada stands looking out, boring myself to death.
• 18:57
  Speaker 6: Now you know.
• 18:58
  Speaker 1: It, turns look towards the inner room and laughs.
• 19:02
  Speaker 5: Ha.
• 19:03
  Speaker 2: Yes, as I thought, here comes the professor.
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: Brack softly in a tone.
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: Of warning, Come, come, come, missus.
• 19:10
  Speaker 1: Header George Tessman, dressed for the party, with his gloves
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: and hat in his hands, enters from the right through
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: the inner room.
• 19:18
  Speaker 5: Haddah, has no message come from ilet loveborg Eh. No,
• 19:23
  Speaker 5: then you'll see he'll be here presently.
• 19:25
  Speaker 3: Do you really think he will come?
• 19:27
  Speaker 5: Yes, I'm almost sure of it. For what you were
• 19:30
  Speaker 5: telling us this morning must have been a mere floating
• 19:33
  Speaker 5: rumor you think so at any rate. And Julia said
• 19:37
  Speaker 5: she did not believe for a moment that he would
• 19:39
  Speaker 5: ever stand in my way again.
• 19:41
  Speaker 3: Fancy the hat, Well, then that's all right.
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: Tessman, placing his hat and gloves on a chair on
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: the right.
• 19:48
  Speaker 5: Yes, but you really must let me wait for him
• 19:50
  Speaker 5: as long as possible.
• 19:51
  Speaker 3: We have plenty of time, yet none of my guests
• 19:54
  Speaker 3: will arrive before seven or half past.
• 19:56
  Speaker 5: Then meanwhile, we can keep head of company and see
• 19:59
  Speaker 5: what happens.
• 19:59
  Speaker 1: Eh, Heada placing Brec's hat and overcoat upon the corner
• 20:03
  Speaker 1: set tea.
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: And at the worst, mister Loveborg can remain here with me.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: Preck offering to take his things.
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: Oh allow me, missus tesmon. What do you mean by
• 20:14
  Speaker 3: at the worst if you won't go with.
• 20:17
  Speaker 1: You in Tessamon Tessman looks dubiously at.
• 20:20
  Speaker 5: Her, But Heathera, dear, do you think it would quite
• 20:23
  Speaker 5: do for him to remain here with you?
• 20:25
  Speaker 4: Eh?
• 20:26
  Speaker 5: Remember, Aunt Julia can't come.
• 20:28
  Speaker 2: No, but missus Elvestead is coming. We three can have
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: a cup of tea together.
• 20:33
  Speaker 1: Oh yes, that will be all right, Breck smiling, And
• 20:37
  Speaker 1: that would perhaps be the safest plan for him.
• 20:40
  Speaker 3: Why so well, you know, missus Tesmon, how you used
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: to gird at my little bachelor parties. You declared they
• 20:48
  Speaker 3: were adapted only for men of the strictest principles.
• 20:51
  Speaker 2: But no doubt, mister Loveborg's principles are strict enough. Now
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: a converted sinner.
• 20:57
  Speaker 1: Better appears at the hall door. There's a gentle and
• 21:00
  Speaker 1: asking if you are at home, ma'am.
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: Well show him in.
• 21:04
  Speaker 1: Tessamon softly.
• 21:05
  Speaker 5: I'm sure it is he fancied the hat.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: I let Lovborg enters from the hall. He is slim
• 21:12
  Speaker 1: and lean, of the same age as Tessaman, but looks
• 21:15
  Speaker 1: older and somewhat worn out. His hair and beard are
• 21:19
  Speaker 1: of a blackish brown, his face long and pale, but
• 21:22
  Speaker 1: with patches of color on the cheeks. He is dressed
• 21:25
  Speaker 1: in a well cut black visiting suit quite new. He
• 21:29
  Speaker 1: has dark gloves and a silk hat. He stops near
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: the door and makes a rapid bow, seeming somewhat embarrassed.
• 21:37
  Speaker 1: Tessmon goes up to him and shakes him warmly by
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: the hand.
• 21:40
  Speaker 5: Well, my dear Eilert, so at last we meet again.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: I let Loveborg speaks in a subdued.
• 21:46
  Speaker 4: Voice, thanks for your letter.
• 21:48
  Speaker 1: Tessman approaching Heada, Will you too.
• 21:52
  Speaker 4: Shake hands with me? Missus?
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: Tessman Heada taking his hand, I am glad to see you,
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: mister Loveborg, with a motion of her hand. I don't
• 22:02
  Speaker 1: know whether you two gentlemen, Lovebark bowing slightly.
• 22:07
  Speaker 4: Judge brack, I think brack doing likewise?
• 22:11
  Speaker 3: Oh yes, in the old days.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Tessmond to loubark with his hands on his shoulders.
• 22:18
  Speaker 5: And now you must make yourself entirely at home, Eilert,
• 22:21
  Speaker 5: mustn't he heada for I hear you are going to
• 22:24
  Speaker 5: settle in town again. Eh, yes, I am quite right,
• 22:28
  Speaker 5: quite right. Oh, let me tell you. I've got hold
• 22:31
  Speaker 5: of your new book, but I haven't had time to
• 22:33
  Speaker 5: read it yet.
• 22:34
  Speaker 4: You may spare yourself the trouble. Why so, because there
• 22:38
  Speaker 4: is very little in it?
• 22:40
  Speaker 5: Just fancy, how can you say so?
• 22:42
  Speaker 3: But it has been very much praised.
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: I hear that was what I wanted, So I put
• 22:47
  Speaker 4: nothing into the book, but what every one would agree with.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Very wise of you.
• 22:53
  Speaker 5: Well, but, my dear Eilert.
• 22:55
  Speaker 4: For now I mean to win myself a position again,
• 22:58
  Speaker 4: to make a fresh.
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: Start, Tessaman, a little embarrassed.
• 23:02
  Speaker 5: Ah, that is what you wish to.
• 23:04
  Speaker 1: Do, eh, Loveborg smiling lays down his head and draws
• 23:09
  Speaker 1: a packet wrapped in paper from his coat pocket.
• 23:12
  Speaker 4: But when this one appears, George, Tessaman, you will have
• 23:16
  Speaker 4: to read it, for this is the real book, the
• 23:19
  Speaker 4: book I have put my true self into.
• 23:22
  Speaker 5: Indeed, and what is it? It is the continuation the
• 23:27
  Speaker 5: continuation of what of the book, of the new Book?
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: Of course, Why, my dear Eilert, does it not come
• 23:35
  Speaker 5: down to our own days?
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: Yes? It does? And this one deals with the.
• 23:40
  Speaker 5: Future, with the future. But good heavens, we know nothing
• 23:45
  Speaker 5: of the future.
• 23:46
  Speaker 4: No, but there is a thing or two to be
• 23:48
  Speaker 4: said about it all the same.
• 23:50
  Speaker 1: Opens the packet.
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: Look here, why that's.
• 23:53
  Speaker 5: Not your handwriting?
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: I dictated it.
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: Turning over the pages, it.
• 23:58
  Speaker 4: Falls into two sections. The first deals with the civilizing
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: forces of the future, and here is the.
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: Second, running through the pages towards.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: The end, forecasting the probable line of development.
• 24:11
  Speaker 5: How odd now, I should never have thought of writing
• 24:15
  Speaker 5: anything of that sort.
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: Heada at the glass door, drumming on the pane.
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: Hmm, I dare say.
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: Not, Lovebork, replacing the manuscript in its paper and laying
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: the packet on the table.
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: I brought it thinking I might read you a little
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: of it this evening.
• 24:31
  Speaker 5: That was very good of you, Eilert. But this evening,
• 24:34
  Speaker 5: looking back at Brack, I don't see how we can
• 24:37
  Speaker 5: manage it.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Well, then some other time, there is no hurry.
• 24:41
  Speaker 3: I must tell you mister Lovebork, there is a little
• 24:44
  Speaker 3: gathering at my house this evening, mainly in honor of Tessman, you.
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: Know, Lovebork looking for his hat.
• 24:51
  Speaker 4: Oh then I won't detain you.
• 24:53
  Speaker 3: No, but listen, will you not do me the favor
• 24:56
  Speaker 3: of joining us?
• 24:57
  Speaker 1: Lovebork curtly and decided.
• 25:00
  Speaker 4: No, I can't thank you very much?
• 25:03
  Speaker 3: Oh nonsense. Do we shall be quite a select little circle,
• 25:08
  Speaker 3: and I assure you we shall have a lively time
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: as missus as missus Tesman says.
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: I have no doubt of it.
• 25:16
  Speaker 3: But nevertheless, and then you might bring your manuscript with
• 25:19
  Speaker 3: you and read it to Tessamon at my house. I
• 25:22
  Speaker 3: could give you a room to yourselves.
• 25:25
  Speaker 5: Yes, think of that, Eilert.
• 25:26
  Speaker 1: Why shouldn't you, eh hetta interposing But Tessaman, if.
• 25:31
  Speaker 2: Mister Loveborg would really rather not, I am sure mister
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: Loveborg is much more inclined to remain here and have
• 25:37
  Speaker 2: supper with me.
• 25:38
  Speaker 1: Loveborg looking at her, with you, missus Tessaman, and.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: With missus elves dead.
• 25:44
  Speaker 4: Oh lightly, I saw her for a moment this morning.
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: Did you well? She is coming this evening, so you
• 25:51
  Speaker 2: see her are almost bound to remain mister Loveborg or
• 25:53
  Speaker 2: she will have no one to see her home.
• 25:55
  Speaker 4: That's true, many thanks missus, Tesman. In that case, I
• 25:59
  Speaker 4: will remain.
• 26:00
  Speaker 2: Then I have one or two orders to give the servant.
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: She goes to the hall door and drinks. Berta enters.
• 26:07
  Speaker 1: Heda talks to her in a whisper and points towards
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: the inner room. Beta nods and goes out again. Tessaman
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: at the same time to Loveborg.
• 26:16
  Speaker 5: Tell me Eilert, is it this new subject, the future,
• 26:20
  Speaker 5: that you're going to lecture about? Yes, they told me
• 26:23
  Speaker 5: at the booksellers that you are going to deliver a
• 26:25
  Speaker 5: course of lectures this autumn.
• 26:27
  Speaker 4: That is my intention. I hope you won't take it ill. Tessaman.
• 26:31
  Speaker 5: Oh no, not in the least.
• 26:33
  Speaker 4: But I can quite understand that it must be very
• 26:36
  Speaker 4: disagreeable to you.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Tessaman cast down.
• 26:40
  Speaker 5: Oh, I can't expect you out of consideration for me too, But.
• 26:44
  Speaker 4: I shall wait till you have received your appointment.
• 26:48
  Speaker 5: Will you wait? Yes? But yes, but you're not going
• 26:52
  Speaker 5: to compete with me.
• 26:54
  Speaker 4: Eh no, it is only the moral victory I care for.
• 26:59
  Speaker 5: Why bless me then? Aunt Julia was right after all? Oh, yes,
• 27:03
  Speaker 5: I do it, Hedda, just fancy I little Loveborg is
• 27:08
  Speaker 5: not gonna stand in our way.
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: Heada curtly our way, pray leave me out of the question.
• 27:15
  Speaker 1: She goes up towards the inner room, where Berta is
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: placing a tray with decanters and glasses on the table.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: Heada not's approval and comes forward again. Berta goes out
• 27:26
  Speaker 1: Tessaman at the same time.
• 27:28
  Speaker 5: And you, judge, Brack, what do you say to this?
• 27:31
  Speaker 1: Eh?
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: Well, I say that her moral victory may be all
• 27:37
  Speaker 3: very fine.
• 27:38
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, certainly, but all the same.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Heada, looking at Tessman with a cold smile.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: You stand there, looking as if you were thunderstruck.
• 27:49
  Speaker 3: Yes, so I am, I almost think, don't you see, missus, Tessman,
• 27:55
  Speaker 3: A thunderstorm has just passed over.
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: Heada, pointing towards the room.
• 28:00
  Speaker 2: Will you not take a glass of cold punch?
• 28:02
  Speaker 1: Gentlemen, brac looking at his watch.
• 28:05
  Speaker 3: A stirrup cup. Yes, it wouldn't come amiss.
• 28:09
  Speaker 5: A capital idea, hadda just the thing, Now that the
• 28:14
  Speaker 5: weight has been taken off my mind, will.
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: You not join them, mister Loveborg.
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: Loveborg with a gesture of refusal.
• 28:21
  Speaker 4: No, thank you, nothing for me?
• 28:24
  Speaker 3: Why bless me? Cold punch is surely not poison.
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: Perhaps not for everyone.
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: I will keep mister Loveborg company in the meantime.
• 28:34
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, had a dear do.
• 28:36
  Speaker 1: He and Breg go into the inner room, seat themselves,
• 28:40
  Speaker 1: drink punch, smoke cigarettes, and carry on a lively conversation.
• 28:44
  Speaker 1: During what follows, I let Lofborg remain standing beside the stove.
• 28:49
  Speaker 1: Heda goes to the writing table, Heada, raising her voice
• 28:52
  Speaker 1: a little.
• 28:53
  Speaker 2: Do you care to look at some photographs, mister Loveborg.
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: You know Tessaman and I made a tour in the
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: tyroll on our way home.
• 29:00
  Speaker 1: She takes up an album and places it on the
• 29:03
  Speaker 1: table beside the sofa in the further corner of which
• 29:06
  Speaker 1: she seats herself. I that Loveborg approaches, stops and looks
• 29:11
  Speaker 1: at her. Then he takes a chair and seats himself
• 29:14
  Speaker 1: to her left. Header, opening the album.
• 29:17
  Speaker 2: Do you see this range of mountains, mister Loveborg. It's
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: the Ortler group, Tessman has written the name underneath here.
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: It is the Ortler Group near Moran.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: Lofborg, who has never taken his eyes off her, says
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: softly and.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: Slowly Header Gobler.
• 29:33
  Speaker 1: Heada, glancing hastily at him. Ah, hush, Loveborg repeats softly,
• 29:40
  Speaker 1: heard a Gobler, Header looking at the album.
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: That was my name in the old days, when we
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: too knew each other.
• 29:48
  Speaker 4: And I must teach myself never to stay head of
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: Gobler again, never as long as I live.
• 29:54
  Speaker 1: Header, still turning over the pages.
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: Yes, you must, and I think you ought to practice
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: in the sooner the better, I should say, Loveborg in
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: a tone of indignation.
• 30:05
  Speaker 4: Heada Gobbler married and married George Tessaman.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: Yes, so the world goes.
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: Oh, heada, Heada, how could you throw yourself away?
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: Heada looks sharply at him.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: What I can't allow this?
• 30:21
  Speaker 4: What do you mean?
• 30:22
  Speaker 1: Tessamon comes into the room and goes towards the sofa. Heada,
• 30:27
  Speaker 1: here's him coming, and says in an indifferent tone, And
• 30:30
  Speaker 1: this is.
• 30:30
  Speaker 2: A view from the valdoon. Pezzo, mister Loveborg, just look
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: at those peaks.
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: Looks affectionately up at Tessman.
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: What's the name of these curious peaks?
• 30:39
  Speaker 5: Dear, let me see. No, those are the Dolomites.
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: Yes, that's it, those are the Dolomites, mister Loveborg.
• 30:46
  Speaker 5: Hea, Dear, I only wanted to ask whether I shouldn't
• 30:50
  Speaker 5: bring you a little punch after all, for yourself at
• 30:52
  Speaker 5: any rate, eh.
• 30:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, do please, and perhaps a few biscuits.
• 30:58
  Speaker 5: No cigarettes, no, very well.
• 31:01
  Speaker 1: He goes into the inner room and out to the
• 31:04
  Speaker 1: right brag. Sits in the inner room and keeps an
• 31:07
  Speaker 1: eye from time to time on Heada and Loveborg, Loveborg
• 31:11
  Speaker 1: softly as before.
• 31:12
  Speaker 4: Answer me, Heada, how could you go and do this?
• 31:17
  Speaker 1: Heada, apparently absorbed in the album.
• 31:20
  Speaker 2: If you continue to say do to me, I won't
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: talk to you.
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: May I not say do even when we are alone?
• 31:27
  Speaker 1: No?
• 31:28
  Speaker 2: You may think it, but you mustn't say it.
• 31:30
  Speaker 4: Ah, I understand it is an offense against George Tessman,
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: whom you love.
• 31:37
  Speaker 1: Heada glances at him and smiles.
• 31:40
  Speaker 2: Love what an idea?
• 31:42
  Speaker 4: You don't love him? Then?
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: But I won't hear of any sort of unfaithfulness, remember.
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: That, Heada, Answer me one thing?
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: Hush. Tessamon enters with a small tray from the inner room.
• 31:54
  Speaker 5: Here you are, he isn't this tempting?
• 31:57
  Speaker 1: He puts the tray on the table. Why do you
• 31:59
  Speaker 1: bring yourself, Tessmond filling the glasses.
• 32:03
  Speaker 5: Because I think it's such fun to wait upon you, Hedda.
• 32:06
  Speaker 2: But you have poured out two glasses. Mister Loveborg said
• 32:09
  Speaker 2: he wouldn't have any.
• 32:11
  Speaker 5: No, but Missus Elvestead will soon be here, won't she.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Yes, by the bye, Missus Elvestead?
• 32:16
  Speaker 5: Had you forgotten her?
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: Eh?
• 32:19
  Speaker 2: We were so absorbed in these photographs?
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: Shows him a picture.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: Do you remember this little village?
• 32:24
  Speaker 5: Oh, it's that one just below the Brenner Pass. It
• 32:28
  Speaker 5: was there we passed the.
• 32:29
  Speaker 2: Night and meant that lively party of tourists.
• 32:32
  Speaker 5: Yes, that was the place. Fancy if we could only
• 32:36
  Speaker 5: have had you with us, Eilert Eh.
• 32:38
  Speaker 1: He returns to the inner room and sits beside Brack.
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: Answer me one thing, HEADA. Well, was there no love
• 32:47
  Speaker 4: in your friendship for me? Either? Not a spark, not
• 32:52
  Speaker 4: a tinge of love in it?
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: I wonder if there was to me? It seems as
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: though we were two good comrades too, thoroughly intimate friends,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: smilingly you especially were frankness itself.
• 33:05
  Speaker 4: It was you that made me so.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: As I look back upon it all, I think there
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: was really something beautiful, something fascinating, something daring in that
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: secret intimacy, that comradeship, which no living creature so much
• 33:21
  Speaker 2: is dreamed of.
• 33:22
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, header was there? Not when I used to
• 33:26
  Speaker 4: come to your father's in the afternoon, and the General
• 33:29
  Speaker 4: sat over at the window reading his papers with his
• 33:32
  Speaker 4: back towards us, and.
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: We two on the corner sofa.
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: Always with the same illustrated paper before us.
• 33:40
  Speaker 2: For want of an album.
• 33:41
  Speaker 4: Yes, yes, Header, And when I made my confessions to you,
• 33:45
  Speaker 4: told you about myself things that at that time no
• 33:48
  Speaker 4: one else knew. There I would sit and tell you
• 33:52
  Speaker 4: of my escapades, my days and nights of devilment. Oh, Header,
• 33:59
  Speaker 4: what was the power in you that forced me to
• 34:01
  Speaker 4: confess these things?
• 34:03
  Speaker 2: Do you think it was any power in me?
• 34:05
  Speaker 4: How else can I explain it? And all those those
• 34:09
  Speaker 4: roundabout questions you used to put to me.
• 34:12
  Speaker 2: Which you understood so particularly.
• 34:14
  Speaker 4: Well, How could you sit and question me like that?
• 34:18
  Speaker 4: Question me quite frankly.
• 34:20
  Speaker 2: In roundabout terms, please observe.
• 34:22
  Speaker 4: Yes, but frankly, nevertheless cross questioned me about all that
• 34:27
  Speaker 4: sort of thing?
• 34:28
  Speaker 2: And how could you answer, mister Loveborg.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: Yes, that is just what I can't understand in looking
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: back upon it. But tell me now, heada, was there
• 34:39
  Speaker 4: not love at the bottom of our friendship? On your side?
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: Did you not feel as though you might purge my
• 34:47
  Speaker 4: stains away? If I made you, my confessor.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: Was it not so? No, not quite?
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: What was your motive? Then?
• 34:57
  Speaker 2: Do you think it quite incomprehensible that a young girl,
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: when it can be done without anyone knowing well, should
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: be glad to have a peep now and then into
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: a world which which which she is forbidden to know
• 35:10
  Speaker 2: anything about.
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: So that was it?
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: Partly? Partly? I almost think.
• 35:17
  Speaker 4: Comradeship in the thirst for life. But why should not that,
• 35:21
  Speaker 4: at any rate have continued?
• 35:23
  Speaker 2: The fault was yours.
• 35:24
  Speaker 4: It was you that broke with me.
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: Yes, when our friendship threatened to develop into something more serious.
• 35:30
  Speaker 2: Shame upon you, Eilert Loveborg. How could you think of
• 35:33
  Speaker 2: wronging your your frank comrade.
• 35:36
  Speaker 1: Love Park clenches his hands.
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: Oh why did you not carry out your threat? Why
• 35:43
  Speaker 4: did you not shoot me down?
• 35:45
  Speaker 2: Because I have such a dread of scandal.
• 35:48
  Speaker 4: Yes, Heda, you are a coward at heart, a terrible.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: Coward, changing her tone.
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: But it was a lucky thing for you, and now
• 35:57
  Speaker 2: you have found ample consolation at the end Elstead's I.
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: Know what Teya has confided.
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: To you, and perhaps you have confided to her something
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: about us.
• 36:07
  Speaker 4: Not a word. She is too stupid to understand. Anything
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: of that sort. Stupid, She is stupid about matters of
• 36:15
  Speaker 4: that sort.
• 36:17
  Speaker 1: And I am cowardly bends over towards him, without looking
• 36:21
  Speaker 1: him in the face, and says, more softly.
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: But now I will confide something.
• 36:25
  Speaker 1: To you, Lofborg eagerly.
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: Well, the fact that I dared not shoot you down. Yes,
• 36:33
  Speaker 2: that was not my errand cowardice that evening.
• 36:36
  Speaker 1: Lofborg looks at her a moment, understands and whispers, passionately.
• 36:42
  Speaker 4: Oh, heada heada gobbler. Now I begin to see a
• 36:46
  Speaker 4: hidden reason beneath our comradeship, you and I. After all,
• 36:51
  Speaker 4: then it was your craving for life.
• 36:54
  Speaker 1: Heada softly, with a sharp glance.
• 36:57
  Speaker 2: Take care believe nothing of the sort.
• 37:00
  Speaker 1: Twilight has begun to fall. The hall door is opened
• 37:03
  Speaker 1: from without by Berta. Hedda closes the album with a
• 37:07
  Speaker 1: bang and calls, smilingly, Ah.
• 37:10
  Speaker 2: At last, my darling Taya, come along.
• 37:14
  Speaker 1: Missus. Elvestead enters from the hall. She is in evening dress.
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: The door is closed behind her. Hedda, on the sofa,
• 37:22
  Speaker 1: stretches out her arms towards her.
• 37:25
  Speaker 2: My sweet Taya, you can't think how I have been
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: longing for.
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: You, missus Elfstead in passing, exchanges slight salutations with the
• 37:33
  Speaker 1: gentlemen in the inner room, then goes up to the
• 37:36
  Speaker 1: table and gives Hedda her hand. I that Lovborg has risen.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: He and missus Elstead greeted each other with a silent nod.
• 37:45
  Speaker 6: Ought I to go in and talk to your husband
• 37:47
  Speaker 6: for a moment.
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: Oh, not at all. Leave those two alone. They will
• 37:51
  Speaker 2: soon be going.
• 37:53
  Speaker 6: Are they going out?
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: Yes?
• 37:55
  Speaker 2: To a supper party.
• 37:56
  Speaker 1: Missus Elvestead quickly to Lovborg.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: You no, mister Loveborg remains with us.
• 38:05
  Speaker 1: Missus Elfstead takes a chair and is about to seat
• 38:08
  Speaker 1: herself at his side.
• 38:10
  Speaker 6: Oh, how nice it is here.
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: No, thank you, my little taya not there. You'll be
• 38:15
  Speaker 2: good enough to come over here to me. I was
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: it between you?
• 38:19
  Speaker 6: Yes, just as you please.
• 38:21
  Speaker 1: She goes round the table and seats herself on the
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: sofa on Headah's right. Loveborg reseats himself on his chair. Loveborg,
• 38:30
  Speaker 1: after a short pause to HEADA.
• 38:32
  Speaker 4: Is she not lovely? To look at.
• 38:35
  Speaker 1: Hedda, lightly stroking her hair, only to look at.
• 38:39
  Speaker 4: Yes, for we too, she and I. We are two
• 38:43
  Speaker 4: real comrades. We have absolute faith in each other, so
• 38:47
  Speaker 4: we can sit and talk with perfect frankness, not.
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: Round about, mister Loveborg.
• 38:53
  Speaker 1: Well, missus elfstead softly clinging close to Heada.
• 38:58
  Speaker 6: Oh, how happy I am, Hedda for only think he
• 39:01
  Speaker 6: says I have inspired him too.
• 39:03
  Speaker 1: Hedda looks at her with a smile.
• 39:06
  Speaker 2: Ah does he say that, dear?
• 39:09
  Speaker 4: And then she is so brave missus tesman?
• 39:13
  Speaker 6: Good heavens am I brave.
• 39:16
  Speaker 4: Exceedingly where your comrade is concerned.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Ah, yes, courage. If one only had that?
• 39:23
  Speaker 4: What then what do you mean?
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: Then life would.
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: Perhaps be livable after all with a sudden change of tone.
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: But now, my dearest teya, you really must have a
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: glass of cold punch.
• 39:34
  Speaker 6: No, thanks, I never take anything of that kind.
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: Well then you, mister loveborg.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Nor, I thank you.
• 39:42
  Speaker 6: No, he doesn't either.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: Heada looks fixedly at him.
• 39:46
  Speaker 2: But if I say you shall.
• 39:48
  Speaker 4: It would be of no use.
• 39:50
  Speaker 1: Heada laughing.
• 39:52
  Speaker 2: Then, I, poor creature, have no sort of power over you,
• 39:56
  Speaker 2: not in that respect. But seriously, I think you are
• 40:00
  Speaker 2: for your own sake, why Hedda?
• 40:03
  Speaker 4: How so?
• 40:04
  Speaker 2: Or rather on account of other people? Indeed, otherwise people
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: might be apt to suspect that, in your heart of
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: hearts you did not feel quite secure, quite confident in yourself,
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: Missus Alpstett softly, Oh.
• 40:19
  Speaker 6: Please, Hedda.
• 40:20
  Speaker 4: People may suspect what they like for the present.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Missus Alpstet joyfully, yes, let them.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: I saw it plainly in Judge Brack's face a moment ago.
• 40:30
  Speaker 4: What did you see his.
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Contemptuous smile when you dared not go with them into
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: the inner room?
• 40:37
  Speaker 4: Dared not? Of course, I preferred to stop here and
• 40:41
  Speaker 4: talk to you.
• 40:42
  Speaker 6: What could be more natural, Hedda?
• 40:45
  Speaker 2: But the judge could not guess that. And I say too,
• 40:47
  Speaker 2: the way he smiled and glanced at Tessaman when you
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: dared not accept his invitation to this wretched little supper
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: party of his dared not?
• 40:56
  Speaker 4: Do you say I dared not?
• 40:59
  Speaker 2: I don't say so, But that was how Judge Brack
• 41:01
  Speaker 2: understood it.
• 41:03
  Speaker 4: Well let him?
• 41:04
  Speaker 2: Then, you are not going with them.
• 41:06
  Speaker 4: I will stay here with you and.
• 41:08
  Speaker 6: Tera yes, Heada, How can you doubt that?
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: Heada smiles and nods approvingly to Loubark.
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: Firm as a rock, faithful to your principles now and forever. Ah,
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: that is how a man should be.
• 41:22
  Speaker 1: Turns to missus Elfstead and caresses her.
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: Well, Now, what did I tell you when you came
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: to us this morning in such a state of distraction.
• 41:31
  Speaker 1: Lofbark surprised distraction, missus Elfstead terrified.
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: Heada, oh heada, you can see for yourself. You haven't
• 41:41
  Speaker 2: the slightest reason to be in such mortal.
• 41:43
  Speaker 1: Terror, interrupting herself.
• 41:45
  Speaker 2: There, now we can all three enjoy.
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: Ourselves, Lovebark, who has given a start?
• 41:52
  Speaker 4: Oh what is all this, missus tesman.
• 41:54
  Speaker 6: Oh my god, Heada, what are you saying? What are
• 41:57
  Speaker 6: you doing?
• 41:58
  Speaker 1: Don't get excited.
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: That horrid judge Brack is sitting watching you.
• 42:02
  Speaker 4: So she was in mortal terror on my account.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Missus Elfstead softly and piteously, Oh, heada.
• 42:11
  Speaker 6: Now you have ruined everything.
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: Love Work looks fixedly at her for a moment. His
• 42:17
  Speaker 1: face is distorted.
• 42:19
  Speaker 4: So that was my comrade's frank confidence in me.
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: Missus Elfstead imploringly, Oh, my dearest friend, only let me
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: tell you. Love Work takes one of the glasses of punch,
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: raises it to his lips, and says, in a low, husky.
• 42:35
  Speaker 4: Voice, your health teya.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: He empties the glass, puts it down, and takes the second.
• 42:43
  Speaker 1: Missus Elfstead softly.
• 42:45
  Speaker 6: Oh hedda, hedda, how could you do this? I do it?
• 42:49
  Speaker 2: I are you crazy?
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: Here's to your health too, missus Tessman. Thanks for the truth,
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: Hurrah for the truth.
• 42:58
  Speaker 1: He empties the glass and is about to refill it.
• 43:01
  Speaker 1: Heada lays her hand on his arm.
• 43:04
  Speaker 2: Come, come no more for the present. Remember you are
• 43:07
  Speaker 2: going out to supper.
• 43:08
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, hush, they are.
• 43:11
  Speaker 1: Sitting watching you, Loafborg putting down the glass.
• 43:15
  Speaker 4: Now, Tea, tell me the truth. Yes, did your husband
• 43:21
  Speaker 4: know that you had come after me?
• 43:22
  Speaker 1: Missus Elfstead wringing her hands, Oh.
• 43:25
  Speaker 6: Heada, do you hear what he is asking?
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: Was it arranged between you and him that you were
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: to come to town and look after me? Perhaps it
• 43:33
  Speaker 4: was the sheriff himself that urged you to come. Aha,
• 43:36
  Speaker 4: my dear, no doubt he wanted my help in his office.
• 43:40
  Speaker 4: Or was it at the card table that he missed me?
• 43:43
  Speaker 1: Missus Elfstead softly in agony, Oh, Loveborg, Loveborg. Lofborg seizes
• 43:50
  Speaker 1: a glass and is on the point of filling it.
• 43:53
  Speaker 4: Here's a glass for the old sheriff.
• 43:55
  Speaker 1: Too, Heada, preventing him.
• 43:58
  Speaker 2: No more, just now, remember you have to read your manuscript.
• 44:02
  Speaker 1: To Tessaman Louborg calmly putting down the glass.
• 44:06
  Speaker 4: It was stupid of me all this tea to take
• 44:09
  Speaker 4: it in this way, I mean, don't be angry with me.
• 44:13
  Speaker 4: My dear dear comrade. You shall see both you and
• 44:18
  Speaker 4: the others that if I was fallen once, now I
• 44:21
  Speaker 4: have risen again thanks to you.
• 44:24
  Speaker 1: Taya, Missus Elvestead, radiant with joy.
• 44:28
  Speaker 6: Oh heaven be praised.
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: Bra has in the meantime, looked at his watch. He
• 44:33
  Speaker 1: and Tessaman rise and come into the drawing room. Brac
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: takes his head and overcoat.
• 44:39
  Speaker 3: Well, missus Tessamon, our time has come.
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: I suppose it has Louborg rising mine too, Judge Brack
• 44:48
  Speaker 1: Missus Elvestead softly and imploringly, Oh, Loveborg, don't do it
• 44:53
  Speaker 1: head pinching her arm. They can hear you, Missus Elvestead,
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: with a suppressed trick ow. Lofborg to Brack.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: You were good enough to invite me.
• 45:05
  Speaker 3: Well are you coming after all?
• 45:08
  Speaker 4: Yes, many thanks, I'm delighted.
• 45:12
  Speaker 1: Lofborg to Tessmond, putting the parcel of m S in
• 45:16
  Speaker 1: his pocket.
• 45:17
  Speaker 4: I should like to show you one or two things
• 45:19
  Speaker 4: before I send it to the printers.
• 45:21
  Speaker 5: Fancy that will be delightful, But heded, dear, how is
• 45:26
  Speaker 5: missus Elvestead to get home.
• 45:27
  Speaker 1: Eh, oh, that can be managed somehow, Lofborg, looking towards
• 45:32
  Speaker 1: the ladies.
• 45:33
  Speaker 4: Missus Elvestead. Of course I'll come again and fetch her.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: Approaching at ten.
• 45:39
  Speaker 4: Or thereabouts, missus tesman, will that do?
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: Certainly? That will do capitally?
• 45:44
  Speaker 5: Well, then that's all right, but you must not expect
• 45:47
  Speaker 5: me so early. Hannah.
• 45:49
  Speaker 2: Oh you may stop as long as long as ever
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: you please.
• 45:52
  Speaker 1: Missus elfstaid, trying to conceal her anxiety.
• 45:56
  Speaker 6: Well, then, mister Loveborg, I shall remain here until you come.
• 46:00
  Speaker 3: Lofborg, with his hat in his hand, pray do, missus Elfstad,
• 46:05
  Speaker 3: and now off goes the excursion trained gentlemen. I hope
• 46:10
  Speaker 3: we shall have a lively time, as a certain fair
• 46:13
  Speaker 3: lady puts it.
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: Ah, if only the fair lady could be present.
• 46:17
  Speaker 3: Unseen why unseen, in.
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: Order to hear a little of your liveliness at first hand,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: Judge Brack.
• 46:24
  Speaker 3: Brack laughing, I should not advise the fair lady to try.
• 46:29
  Speaker 1: It, Tessman also laughing, ha.
• 46:32
  Speaker 5: Ha ha, come yer lie, while had a fancy.
• 46:35
  Speaker 3: That well, good bye, good bye, ladies.
• 46:39
  Speaker 1: Lofborg bowing about ten o'clock. Then Brack Lofborg and Tessmon
• 46:45
  Speaker 1: go out by the hall door. At the same time,
• 46:48
  Speaker 1: Berta enters from the inner room with a lighted lamp,
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: which she places on the drawing room table. She goes
• 46:54
  Speaker 1: out by the way she came missus elfstaid, who has
• 46:58
  Speaker 1: risen and is wondering restlessly about the room?
• 47:01
  Speaker 6: Hedda, hedda? What will come of all this?
• 47:05
  Speaker 2: At ten o'clock he will be here. I can see
• 47:08
  Speaker 2: him already, with vine leaves in his hair, flushed and fearless.
• 47:13
  Speaker 6: Oh, I hope he may, And.
• 47:15
  Speaker 2: Then you see, then he will have regained control over himself.
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: Then he will be a free man for all his days.
• 47:22
  Speaker 6: Oh God, if he would only come as you see him.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Now, he will come as I see him so, and not.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: Otherwise, rises and approach his tea.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: You may doubt him as long as you please. I
• 47:35
  Speaker 2: believe in him, and now we will try.
• 47:38
  Speaker 6: You have some hidden motive in this header.
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: Yes I have. I want for once in my life
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: to have power to mold a human destiny? Have you
• 47:46
  Speaker 2: not the power I have not and have never had it?
• 47:50
  Speaker 3: Not?
• 47:50
  Speaker 2: Your husbands, do you think that is worth the trouble?
• 47:54
  Speaker 4: Oh?
• 47:54
  Speaker 2: If you could only understand how poor I am, and
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: fate has made you so rich.
• 48:00
  Speaker 1: Glasps her passionately in her arms.
• 48:02
  Speaker 2: I think I must burn your hair off.
• 48:04
  Speaker 6: After all, let me go, Let me go. I am
• 48:08
  Speaker 6: afraid of you.
• 48:08
  Speaker 1: Hadda better In the middle doorway. Tea is laid in
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: the dining room.
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: Ma'am very well, we are coming.
• 48:16
  Speaker 6: No, no, no, I would rather go home alone at once.
• 48:19
  Speaker 2: Nonsense. First you shall have a cup of tea, you
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: little stupid, And then at ten o'clock, I lert Loveborg
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: will be here with vine leaves in his hair.
• 48:29
  Speaker 1: She drags Missus Elvestead almost by force, to the middle doorway.
• 48:35
  Speaker 1: And of Act two