X. and Z., very well educated and of radical views, married. In the evening they talked together pleasantly, then quarreled, then came to blows. In the morning both are ashamed and surprised, they think that it must have been the result of some exceptional state of their nerves. Next night again a quarrel and blows. And so every night until at last they realize that they are not at all educated, but savage, just like the majority of people.
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A play: in order to avoid having visitors, Z. pretends to be a regular tippler, although he drinks nothing.
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When children appear on the scene, then we justify all our weaknesses, our compromises, and our snobbery, by saying: "It's for the children's sake."
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Count, I am going away to Mordegundia. (A land of horrible faces.)
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Barbara Nedotyopin.
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