CHARLES SYLVESTER (aside to TEMPENNY).
You'll break my ankle directly, hang you. What do you want?
REMBRANDT TEMPENNY (aside to SYLVESTER).
Intelligence. I'll break your neck in another minute, you born fool! (Aloud suavely.) Mr. Schercl is naturally anxious to hear how the picture he had given me a commission for is getting along. I was telling him how much you think of it but he would like to hear your views from your own mouth.
CHARLES SYLVESTER.
Oh—oh!—now I know what you're talking about! Well, I have a very high opinion of the work indeed, Mr. Schercl—a very high opinion. (Aside to TEMPENNY.) What's the subject?
REMBRANDT TEMPENNY (aside to SYLVESTER).
"Susannah before the Elders"—pitch it strong.
CHARLES SYLVESTER.
The conception of Susannah, and in fact the entire treatment if I may say so, is bold in the extreme. He makes a school, our friend here. You will be surprised when you see the work, and impressed.