Boletta.

[Looks at him sympathetically.] Oh don’t get such melancholy thoughts into your head.

Lyngstrand.

I don’t see that it is so very melancholy.

Boletta.

How do you mean?

Lyngstrand.

I shall be starting in about a month, first for home, and soon afterwards for the South.

Boletta.

Oh, I see. Yes, yes.