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Tesman.

[Filling the glasses.] Because I think it's such fun to wait upon you, Hedda.

Hedda.

But you have poured out two glasses. Mr. Lövborg said he wouldn't have any——

Tesman.

No, but Mrs. Elvsted will soon be here, won't she?

Hedda.

Yes, by-the-bye—Mrs. Elvsted——

Tesman.

Had you forgotten her? Eh?

Hedda.

We were so absorbed in these photographs. [Shows him a picture.] Do you remember this little village?

Tesman.

Oh, it's that one just below the Brenner Pass. It was there we passed the night——

Hedda.

——and met that lively party of tourists.

Tesman.

Yes, that was the place. Fancy—if we could only have had you with us, Eilert! Eh?

[He returns to the inner room and sits beside Brack.

Lövborg.

Answer me this one thing, Hedda——