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 Brack.

I had special reasons for keeping track of my guests—or rather of some of my guests—last night.

Hedda.

Of Eilert Lövborg among the rest, perhaps?

Brack.

Frankly—yes.

Hedda. Now you make me really curious

Brack.

Do you know where he and one or two of the others finished the night, Mrs. Hedda?

Hedda. If it is not quite unmentionable, tell me.

Brack.

Oh no, it's not at all unmentionable. Well, they put in an appearance at a particularly animated soirée.

Hedda.

Of the lively kind?

Brack. Of the very liveliest

Hedda. Tell me more of this, Judge Brack

Brack.

Lövborg, as well as the others, had been invited in advance. I knew all about it. But he had