[Bowing.] About ten o'clock, then,
[BRACK, LOVBORG, and TESMAN go out by the hall door. At the
same time, BERTA enters from the inner room with a lighted
lamp, which she places on the drawing-room table; she goes
out by the way she came.
MRS. ELVSTED.
[Who has risen and is wandering restlessly about the room.] Hedda— Hedda—what will come of all this?
HEDDA.
At ten o'clock—he will be here. I can see him already—with vine-leaves in his hair—flushed and fearless—
MRS. ELVSTED.
Oh, I hope he may.
HEDDA.
And then, you see—then he will have regained control over himself. Then he will be a free man for all his days.