[Eagerly.] Well?
Hedda.
The fact that I dared not shoot you down——
Lövborg.
Yes!
Hedda.
——that was not my most arrant cowardice—that evening.
Lövborg.
[Looks at her a moment, understands, and whispers passionately.] Oh, Hedda! Hedda Gabler! Now I begin to see a hidden reason beneath our comradeship! You[[23]] and I——! After all, then, it was your craving for life——
Hedda.