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[Looks at her.] My book and Thea's; for that is what it is.
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.
[In agonised foreboding.] Lovborg--what have you done with the manuscript?
HEDDA.
[Looks anxiously at him.] Yes, the manuscript---?
MRS. ELVSTED.
Where is it?
LOVBORG.
The manuscript---. Well then--I have torn the manuscript into a thousand pieces.
MRS. ELVSTED.
[Shrieks.] Oh no, no---!
HEDDA.
[Involuntarily.] But that's not---
LOVBORG.
[Looks at her.] Not true, you think?
HEDDA.
[Collecting herself.] Oh well, of course--since you say so. But it sounded so improbable---
LOVBORG.
It is true, all the same.
MRS. ELVSTED.
[Wringing her hands.] Oh God--oh God, Hedda--torn his own work to pieces!
LOVBORG.
I have torn my own life to pieces. So why should I not tear my life- work too---?
MRS. ELVSTED.
And you did this last night?
LOVBORG.
Yes, I tell you! Tore it into a thousand pieces--and scattered them on the fiord--far out. There there is cool sea-water at any rate-- let them drift upon it--drift with the current and the wind. And then presently they will sink---deeper and deeper--as I shall, Thea.
MRS. ELVSTED.
Do you know, Lovborg, that what you have done with the book--I shall think of it to my dying day as though you had killed a little child.
LOVBORG.
Yes, you are right. It is a sort of child-murder.
MRS. ELVSTED.
How could you, then---! Did not the child belong to me too?
HEDDA.
[Almost inaudibly.] Ah, the child---
MRS. ELVSTED.
[Breathing heavily.] It is all over then. Well well, now I will go, Hedda.
HEDDA.
But you are not going away from town?
MRS. ELVSTED.
Oh, I don't know what I shall do. I see nothing but darkness before me. [She goes out by the hall door.
HEDDA.
[Stands waiting for a moment.] So you are not going to see her home, Mr. Lovborg?
LOVBORG.
I? Through the streets? Would you have people see her walking with me?
HEDDA.
Of course I don't know what else may have happened last night. But is it so utterly irretrievable?
LOVBORG.
It will not end with last night--I know that perfectly well. And the thing is that now I have no taste for that sort of life either. I won't begin it anew. She has broken my courage and my power of braving life out.
