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 Hedda.

Perhaps you would prefer to talk to her alone? If so, I will leave you.

Lövborg. No, stay—you too. I beg you to stay.

Mrs. Elvsted. Yes, but I won't hear anything, I tell you.

Lövborg.

It is not last night's adventures that I want to talk about.

Mrs. Elvsted. What is it then?

Lövborg.

I want to say that now our ways must part.

Mrs. Elvsted. Part!

Hedda. [Involuntarily.] I knew it!

Lövborg. You can be of no more service to me, Thea.

Mrs. Elvsted.

How can you stand there and say that! No more service to you! Am I not to help you now, as before? Are we not to go on working together?

Lövborg. Henceforward I shall do no work.