But the Judge could not guess that. And I saw, too, the way he smiled and glanced at Tesman when you dared not accept his invitation to this wretched little supper-party of his.

Lövborg.

Dared not! Do you say I dared not?

Hedda.

I don’t say so. But that was how Judge Brack understood it.

Lövborg.

Well, let him.

Hedda.

Then you are not going with them?

Lövborg.