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 Brack.

[Laughing equivocally.] Well well, Mrs. Hedda—perhaps you are right there. If I had, who knows what I might be capable of?

Hedda.

Come come now, Judge Brack! That sounds almost like a threat.

Brack.

[Rising.] Oh, not at all! The triangle, you know, ought, if possible, to be spontaneously constructed.

Hedda.

There I agree with you.

Brack.

Well, now I have said all I had to say; and I had better be getting back to town. Good-bye, Mrs. Hedda. [He goes towards the glass door.

Hedda.

[Rising.] Are you going through the garden?

Brack.

Yes, it's a short cut for me.

Hedda.

And then it is a back way, too.

Brack.

Quite so. I have no objection to back ways. They may be piquant enough at times.

Hedda.

When there is ball practice going on, you mean?