"Why?"
"Too softening and enervating."
Stumff laughed a jolly laugh.
"Did not you like the music, Sandwirth?" cried Alouise.
"Too much," said he, sighing. "It made my heart ready to burst."
"The dancing, then?"
"Not at all."
Alouise smiled. "Oh!" said she, "you are getting too grave and steady, at your time of life; but you would have liked it when you were young."
"Perhaps I should—perhaps I should not; but that would not have made it good or bad."