Part 40

BRACK.

A trusted, sympathetic friend--

HEDDA.

--with a fund of conversation on all sorts of lively topics--

BRACK.

--and not the least bit of a specialist!

HEDDA.

BRACK.

HEDDA.

GEORGE TESMAN, in a grey walking-suit, with a soft felt hat, enters from the hall. He has a number of unbound books under his arm and in his pockets.

TESMAN.

BRACK.

HEDDA.

What books have you got there?

TESMAN.

HEDDA.

Your special subjects?

BRACK.

Yes, books on his special subjects, Mrs. Tesman.

HEDDA.

Do you need still more books on your special subjects?

TESMAN.

Yes, my dear Hedda, one can never have too many of them. Of course one must keep up with all that is written and published.

HEDDA.

Yes, I suppose one must.

TESMAN.

HEDDA.

No, thank you. Or rather--afterwards perhaps.