[Lightly.] Eilert Lovborg has been in your neighbourhood about three years, hasn't he?
MRS. ELVSTED.
[Looks at her doubtfully.] Eilert Lovborg? Yes—he has.
HEDDA.
Had you known him before, in town here?
MRS. ELVSTED.
Scarcely at all. I mean—I knew him by name of course.
HEDDA.
But you saw a good deal of him in the country?
MRS. ELVSTED.