Hedda.

[Taking his hand.] I am glad to see you, Mr. Lövborg. [With a motion of her hand.] I don’t know whether you two gentlemen——?

Lövborg.

[Bowing slightly.] Judge Brack, I think.

Brack.

[Doing likewise.] Oh yes,—in the old days——

Tesman.

[To Lövborg, with his hands on his shoulders.] And now you must make yourself entirely at home, Eilert! Musn’t he, Hedda?—For I hear you are going to settle in town again? Eh?

Lövborg.

Yes, I am.