MRS. ELVSTED.
How could you, then—! Did not the child belong to me too?
HEDDA.
[Almost inaudibly.] Ah, the child—
MRS. ELVSTED.
[Breathing heavily.] It is all over then. Well well, now I will go, Hedda.
HEDDA.
But you are not going away from town?
MRS. ELVSTED.
Oh, I don't know what I shall do. I see nothing but darkness before me. [She goes out by the hall door.