[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 things we were 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.