Part 82

MRS. ELVSTED.

LOVBORG.

You must try to live your life as if you had never known me.

MRS. ELVSTED.

But you know I cannot do that!

LOVBORG.

Try if you cannot, Thea. You must go home again--

MRS. ELVSTED.

HEDDA.

LOVBORG.

MRS. ELVSTED.

Yes, I feel that it is. And that is why I have a right to be with you when it appears! I will see with my own eyes how respect and honour pour in upon you afresh. And the happiness--the happiness--oh, I must share it with you!

LOVBORG.

Thea--our book will never appear.

HEDDA.

Ah!

MRS. ELVSTED.

Never appear!

LOVBORG.

Can never appear.

MRS. ELVSTED.

HEDDA.

MRS. ELVSTED.

Where is it?

LOVBORG.

The manuscript--. Well then--I have torn the manuscript into a thousand pieces.

MRS. ELVSTED.

HEDDA.