MRS. ELVSTED.

[In agonised foreboding.] Lovborg—what have you done with the manuscript?

HEDDA.

[Looks anxiously at him.] Yes, the manuscript—?

MRS. ELVSTED.

Where is it?

LOVBORG.

The manuscript—. Well then—I have torn the manuscript into a thousand pieces.

MRS. ELVSTED.

[Shrieks.] Oh no, no—!