Once beggared of ideas, I and they

Would saunter arm in arm the selfsame way— [Breaking off.

But Lind! why, what’s the matter with you, pray?

You sit there dumb and dreaming—I suspect you’re

Deep in the mysteries of architecture.

Lind [collecting himself].

I? What should make you think so?

Falk.

I observe.

Your eyes are glued to the verandah yonder—