"O no! what is the use of that?"
"We have a perfect right to show ourselves before the whole world, without anybody's leave or license. I mean people shall look out when we drive by."
At last they took their places. As they passed the doctor's house, Annele called out: "Blow your horn now, Gregory; blow loud! The doctor's daughters shall look out, and see how we drive together. Look! there is not a soul to be seen. They have shut the window in the corner room. There they are, I know, dying of spite; they will have to tell about us, for I can hear the old mayoress asking, What is that horn-blowing? I should like to be behind the door, and hear it all."
"Annele, you put on strange airs to-day."
"And why not? you please me specially to-day. People are right in praising your eyes. How true and clear they are! I did not know they were so beautiful. You are really a handsome fellow!"
Lenz looked yet handsomer from the glow of pleasure which overspread his face. "I will have some new clothes made in the latest fashion,--shall I not?"
"No, stay as you are. You look much more comfortable and respectable so."
"Not only look so, but am so."
"Are so, to be sure. Don't treat every word as if it were a tooth in a clock-wheel."
"You are quite right."