Tesman.

Oh, for heaven’s sake, tell us!

Brack.

[Shrugging his shoulders.] Well, I regret to say Eilert Lövborg has been taken to the hospital. He is lying at the point of death.

Mrs. Elvsted.

[Shrieks.] Oh God! oh God——!

Tesman.

To the hospital! And at the point of death!

Hedda.

[Involuntarily.] So soon then——