Hedda.

Are you no surer of him than that?

Mrs. Elvsted.

[Gloomily.] A woman’s shadow stands between Eilert Lövborg[Lövborg] and me.

Hedda.

[Looks at her anxiously.] Who can that be?

Mrs. Elvsted.

I don’t know. Some one he knew in his—in his past. Some one he has never been able wholly to forget.

Hedda.

What has he told you—about this?