"A good idea! I've been wanting to see you."
"Have you really?"
"You know young Levi?"
"Of course I do!"
"Read this paper, aloud, please!"
Levin read, in a loud voice: "Magnificent bequest: With a generosity which is not now infrequently met with among the merchant class, the wholesale merchant Mr. Charles Nicholas Falk, in order to commemorate the anniversary of a happy marriage, has bequeathed to the crèche 'Bethlehem' the sum of twenty thousand crowns, one half of it to be paid at once, and the other half after the death of the generous donor. The bequest is all the more significant as Mrs. Falk is one of the founders of the philanthropic institution."
"Will that do?" asked Falk.
"Splendidly! The new year will bring you the order of Vasa!"
"I want you to take the deed of gift and the money to the Administrative Committee of the crèche, that is to say, to my wife, and then go and find young Levi. Do you understand?"
"Quite."