Would you really take such a burden upon you again?
MISS TESMAN.
A burden! Heaven forgive you, child—it has been no burden to me.
HEDDA.
But suppose you had a total stranger on your hands—
MISS TESMAN.
Oh, one soon makes friends with sick folk; and it's such an absolute necessity for me to have some one to live for. Well, heaven be praised, there may soon be something in this house, too, to keep an old aunt busy.
HEDDA.
Oh, don't trouble about anything here.
TESMAN.