HEDDA: No matter—I could not bear the idea that any one should throw you into the shade.

TESMAN. [In an outburst of mingled doubt and joy.] Hedda! Oh, is this true? But—but—I never knew you show your love like that before. Fancy that! (Hedda Gabler; act 4, p. 129)

To what does Hedda compare Lovborg with the metaphor in her dialogue with Tesman?

a tree

the moon

an Olympian

the sun