[In a low voice.] Oh, what a sense of freedom it gives one, this act of Eilert Lovborg's.
BRACK.
Freedom, Mrs. Hedda? Well, of course, it is a release for him—
HEDDA.
I mean for me. It gives me a sense of freedom to know that a deed of deliberate courage is still possible in this world,—a deed of spontaneous beauty.
BRACK.
[Smiling.] H'm—my dear Mrs. Hedda—
HEDDA.
Oh, I know what you are going to say. For you are a kind of specialist too, like—you know!
BRACK.