He will be soon, at any rate. We parted outside the hotel.

Bernick.

And he holds to his purpose?

Lona.

Firm as a rock.

Rummel.

[At one of the windows.] Deuce take these new-fangled arrangements. I can’t get these curtains drawn.

Lona.

Are they to be drawn? I thought, on the contrary——

Rummel.