TESMAN.
They told me at the bookseller's that you are going to deliver a course of lectures this autumn.
LOVBORG.
That is my intention. I hope you won't take it ill, Tesman.
TESMAN.
Oh no, not in the least! But—?
LOVBORG.
I can quite understand that it must be very disagreeable to you.
TESMAN.
[Cast down.] Oh, I can't expect you, out of consideration for me, to—