Did you? Well, she is coming this evening. So you see you are almost bound to remain, Mr. Lovborg, or she will have no one to see her home.
LOVBORG.
That's true. Many thanks, Mrs. Tesman—in that case I will remain.
HEDDA.
Then I have one or two orders to give the servant—
[She goes to the hall door and rings. BERTA enters. HEDDA talks
to her in a whisper, and points towards the inner room. BERTA
nods and goes out again.
TESMAN.
[At the same time, to LOVBORG.] Tell me, Eilert—is it this new subject—the future—that you are going to lecture about?
LOVBORG.
Yes.