Robert (getting scarlet).
Ah! what now?
Ida.
I thought—your pipe—the next thing it will be burning your nose and so I’ve had pity on you, and yesterday I—(Shows a new pipe which she has hitherto held behind her back and gives it to him.) Here is the masterpiece!
[All amused.
Robert (without taking the pipe).
You’re joking, Miss Ida!
Ida.
Ah well!—But I’m in deadly earnest over the present!
Robert.