Hedda.

[Involuntarily.] I knew it!

Lövborg.

You can be of no more service to me, Thea.

Mrs. Elvsted.

How can you stand there and say that! No more service to you! Am I not to help you now, as before? Are we not to go on working together?

Lövborg.

Henceforward I shall do no work.

Mrs. Elvsted.

[Despairingly.] Then what am I to do with my life?