Lövborg.

[Softly, as before.] Answer me, Hedda—how could you go and do this?

Hedda.

[Apparently absorbed in the album.] If you continue to say du to me I won’t talk to you.

Lövborg.

May I not say du even when we are alone?

Hedda.

No. You may think it; but you mustn’t say it.

Lövborg.

Ah, I understand. It is an offence against George Tesman, whom you[[22]]—love.