No, but listen—will you not do me the favour of joining us?
LOVBORG.
[Curtly and decidedly.] No, I can't—thank you very much.
BRACK.
Oh, nonsense—do! We shall be quite a select little circle. And I assure you we shall have a "lively time," as Mrs. Hed—as Mrs. Tesman says.
LOVBORG.
I have no doubt of it. But nevertheless—
BRACK.
And then you might bring your manuscript with you, and read it to Tesman at my house. I could give you a room to yourselves.
TESMAN.