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] So that pretty little fool has had her fingers in a man's destiny. [Looks at him.] But all the same, how could you treat her so heartlessly.
LOVBORG.
Oh, don't say that I was heartless!
HEDDA.
To go and destroy what has filled her whole soul for months and years! You do not call that heartless!
LOVBORG.
To you I can tell the truth, Hedda.
HEDDA.
The truth?
LOVBORG.
First promise me--give me your word--that what I now confide in you Thea shall never know.
HEDDA.
I give you my word.
LOVBORG.
Good. Then let me tell you that what I said just now was untrue.
HEDDA.
About the manuscript?
LOVBORG.
Yes. I have not torn it to pieces--nor thrown it into the fiord.
HEDDA.
No, no---. But--where is it then?
LOVBORG.
I have destroyed it none the less--utterly destroyed it, Hedda!
HEDDA.
I don't understand.
LOVBORG.
Thea said that what I had done seemed to her like a child-murder.
HEDDA.
Yes, so she said.
LOVBORG.
But to kill his child--that is not the worst thing a father can do to it.
HEDDA.
Not the worst?
LOVBORG.
Suppose now, Hedda, that a man--in the small hours of the morning-- came home to his child's mother after a night of riot and debauchery, and said: "Listen--I have been here and there--in this place and in that. And I have taken our child with--to this place and to that. And I have lost the child--utterly lost it. The devil knows into what hands it may have fallen--who may have had their clutches on it."
HEDDA.
Well--but when all is said and done, you know--this was only a book---
LOVBORG.
Thea's pure soul was in that book.
HEDDA.
Yes, so I understand.
LOVBORG.
And you can understand, too, that for her and me together no future is possible.
HEDDA.
What path do you mean to take then?
LOVBORG.
None. I will only try to make an end of it all--the sooner the better.
HEDDA.
[A step nearer him.] Eilert Lovborg--listen to me.--Will you not try to--to do it beautifully?
LOVBORG.
Beautifully? [Smiling.] With vine-leaves in my hair, as you used to dream in the old days---?
HEDDA.
No, no. I have lost my faith in the vine-leaves. But beautifully nevertheless! For once in a way!--Good-bye! You must go now--and do not come here any more.
LOVBORG.
Good-bye, Mrs. Tesman. And give George Tesman my love. [He is on the point of going.
HEDDA.
No, wait! I must give you a memento to take with you. [She goes to the writing-table and opens the drawer and the pistol-case; then returns to LOVBORG with one of the pistols.
LOVBORG.
[Looks at her.] This? Is this the memento?
HEDDA.
[Nodding slowly.] Do you recognise it? It was aimed at you once.
