HEDDA.
[Preventing him.] No more just now. Remember, you have to read your manuscript to Tesman.
LOVBORG.
[Calmly, putting down the glass.] It was stupid of me all this. Thea—to take it in this way, I mean. Don't be angry with me, my dear, dear comrade. You shall see—both you and the others—that if I was fallen once—now I have risen again! Thanks to you, Thea.
MRS. ELVSTED.
[Radiant with joy.] Oh, heaven be praised—!
[BRACK has in the meantime looked at his watch. He and TESMAN
rise and come into the drawing-room.
BRACK.
[Takes his hat and overcoat.] Well, Mrs. Tesman, our time has come.
HEDDA.