LINDGREN. You don't recognise me?
AXEL. Yes, now I do. But you have changed a great deal.
LINDGREN. Oh, you think so?
AXEL. Yes, I do, and I am surprised to find that these years can have had such an effect——
LINDGREN. Three years may be pretty long.—And you don't ask me to sit down?
AXEL. Please—but I am rather in a hurry.
LINDGREN. You have always been in a hurry.
[He sits down; pause.
AXEL. Why don't you say something unpleasant?
LINDGREN. It's coming, it's coming!