You have never gone through any really stimulating experience.
Hedda.
Anything serious, you mean?
Brack.
Yes, you may call it so. But now you may perhaps have one in store.
Hedda.
[Tossing her head.] Oh, you’re thinking of the annoyances about this wretched professorship! But that must be Tesman’s own affair. I assure you I shall not waste a thought upon it.
Brack.
No, no, I daresay not. But suppose now that what people call—in elegant language—a solemn responsibility were to come upon you? [Smiling.] A new responsibility, Mrs. Hedda?
Hedda.