KARL
Tonight I shall become engaged.
DEVIL
I have already offered him my congratulations—she's a charming girl.
KARL
A splendid girl. Much too good for me—but marrying is something new to me—I want to try it. It is a sensation I have never had.
DEVIL
You don't seem very gay for a bridegroom.
KARL
That's only the last drop of single bitterness—the dregs of bachelorhood—I'll soon get rid of that and then—