George.

[Cheering up.] Still, we shall see Aunt Julie every day, and that will be something, and I've got back my old slippers. We shan't be altogether without some amusements, eh?

Hedda.

[Crosses the floor.] Not while I have one thing to amuse myself with, at all events.

George.

[Beaming with joy.] Oh, Heaven be praised and thanked for that! My goodness, so you have! And what may that be, Hedda, eh?

Hedda.

[At the doorway, with suppressed scorn.] Yes, George you have the old slippers of the attentive aunt, and I have the horse-pistols of the deceased general!

George.

[In an agony.] The pistols! Oh, my goodness! what pistols?