Who can tell? Let me hear what it is.

Hedda.

Whether I might not get Tesman to go into politics, I mean.

Brack.

[Laughing.] Tesman? No really now, political life is not the thing for him—not at all in his line.

Hedda.

No, I daresay not.—But if I could get him into it all the same?

Brack.

Why—what satisfaction could you find in that? If he is not fitted for that sort of thing, why should you want to drive him into it?

Hedda.