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Brack.
[Sympathetically.] Do you really say so? In downright earnest?
Hedda.
Yes, you can surely understand it! To go for six whole months without meeting a soul that knew anything of our circle, or could talk about the things we are interested in.
Brack.
Yes, yes—I too should feel that a deprivation.
Hedda.
And then, what I found most intolerable of all
Brack.
Well?
Hedda.
was being everlastingly in the company of—one and the same person
Brack.
[With a nod of assent.] Morning, noon, and night, yes—at all possible times and seasons.
Hedda.
I said "everlastingly."
Brack.
Just so. But I should have thought, with our excellent Tesman, one could
Hedda.
Tesman is—a specialist, my dear Judge.
