HEDDA.
The name is "Mrs. Elvsted."
TESMAN.
Is it really? Sheriff Elvsted's wife? Miss Rysing that was.
HEDDA.
Exactly. The girl with the irritating hair, that she was always showing off. An old flame of yours I've been told.
TESMAN.
[Laughing.] Oh, that didn't last long; and it was before I met you, Hedda. But fancy her being in town!
HEDDA.
It's odd that she should call upon us. I have scarcely seen her since we left school.