This is exquisite! And you really cared not a rap about it all the time?

Hedda.

No, heaven knows I didn’t.

Brack.

But now? Now that we have made it so homelike for you?

Hedda.

Uh—the rooms all seem to smell of lavender and dried rose-leaves.—But perhaps it’s Aunt Julia that has brought that scent with her.

Brack.

[Laughing.] No, I think it must be a legacy from the late Mrs. Secretary Falk.

Hedda.