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Hedda.
There is this in it, that I made use of Tesman to see me home from evening parties last summer
Brack.
I, unfortunately, had to go quite a different way.
Hedda.
That's true. I know you were going a different way last summer.
Brack.
[Laughing.] Oh fie, Mrs. Hedda! Well, then—you and Tesman?
Hedda.
Well, we happened to pass here one evening; Tesman, poor fellow, was writhing in the agony of having to find conversation; so I took pity on the learned man
Brack.
[Smiles doubtfully.] You took pity? H'm
Hedda.
Yes, I really did. And so—to help him out of his torment—I happened to say, in pure thoughtlessness, that I should like to live in this villa.
Brack.
No more than that?
Hedda.
Not that evening.
Brack.
But afterwards?
