Brack.

[Sympathetically.] Do you really say so? In downright earnest?

Hedda.

Yes, you can surely understand it——! To go for six whole months without meeting a soul that knew anything of our circle, or could talk about the things we are interested in.

Brack.

Yes, yes—I too should feel that a deprivation.

Hedda.

And then, what I found most intolerable of all——

Brack.

Well?