Arnholm.
But you are as fond as ever of reading?
Boletta.
Yes, I read all the useful books I can get hold of. One wants to know a little about the world. Here we live so entirely outside of everything,—or almost entirely.
Arnholm.
No, my dear Boletta, don’t say that.
Boletta.
But I do say so. I don’t see much difference between our life and the life of the carp in the pond there. They have the fiord close beside them, where the great free shoals of fish sweep out and in. But the poor tame house-fishes know nothing of all that; and they can never join in.
Arnholm.
I don’t think it would agree with them at all if they did get out into the fiord.