STUDENT. Are you talking to yourself, sir?
STRANGER. I have that bad habit.—Are your parents still living?
STUDENT. They are not.
STRANGER. Now you lied again, but unconsciously.
STUDENT. I never tell a lie!
STRANGER. Not more than three in these few moments! I know your father.
STUDENT. I don't believe it.
STRANGER. So much the better for me!—Do you see this scarf-pin? It's pretty, isn't it? But I never see anything of it myself—I have no pleasure in its being there, while everybody else is enjoying it. There is nothing selfish about that, is there? But there are moments when I should like to see it in another man's tie so that I might have a chance to admire it. Would you care to have it?
STUDENT. I don't quite understand—Perhaps, as you said, it's better not to wear it.
STRANGER. Perhaps!—Don't get impatient now. She will be here soon.—Do you find it enviable to be young?