Frau Gabor.

Have you read it yet?

Melchior.

Not to the end.

Moritz.

We're just at the Walpurgisnacht.

Frau Gabor.

If I were you I should have waited for one or two years.

Melchior.

I know of no book, Mamma, in which I have found so much beauty. Why shouldn't I read it?