[Sets down the glass and whistles softly with delight.]

[HORACE shows increasing signs of annoyance.]

VASILI

You still enjoy those delights?

PIKE

Not since I moved up to our county-seat ten years ago and began to practice law. Things don't taste the same in the city.

VASILI

You do not like your city?

PIKE

[not with braggadocio, but earnestly, almost [pg 054] pathetically]