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 Brack.

[Sympathetically.] Do you really say so? In downright earnest?

Hedda.

Yes, you can surely understand it! To go for six whole months without meeting a soul that knew anything of our circle, or could talk about the things we are interested in.

Brack.

Yes, yes—I too should feel that a deprivation.

Hedda.

And then, what I found most intolerable of all

Brack.

Well?

Hedda.

was being everlastingly in the company of—one and the same person

Brack.

[With a nod of assent.] Morning, noon, and night, yes—at all possible times and seasons.

Hedda.

I said "everlastingly."

Brack.

Just so. But I should have thought, with our excellent Tesman, one could

Hedda.

Tesman is—a specialist, my dear Judge.