Part 26

HEDDA.

You were two good comrades, in fact?

MRS. ELVSTED.

HEDDA.

Are you no surer of him than that?

MRS. ELVSTED.

HEDDA.

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?

MRS. ELVSTED.

He has only once--quite vaguely--alluded to it.

HEDDA.

Well! And what did he say?

MRS. ELVSTED.

He said that when they parted, she threatened to shoot him with a pistol.

HEDDA.

MRS. ELVSTED.

No. And that is why I think it must have been that red-haired singing-woman whom he once--

HEDDA.

Yes, very likely.

MRS. ELVSTED.

For I remember they used to say of her that she carried loaded firearms.

HEDDA.

Oh--then of course it must have been she.

MRS. ELVSTED.

HEDDA.