Professor Rubek.
Did I say so? Yes, I daresay I did. [Absorbed in the game.] Just see how the sea-gulls are swimming down the stream!
Irene.
[Laughing.] And all your ships have run ashore.
Professor Rubek.
[Throwing more leaves into the brook.] I have ships enough in reserve. [Follows the leaves with his eyes, throws more into the brook, and says after a pause.] Irene,—I have bought the little peasant hut beside the Lake of Taunitz.
Irene.
Have you bought it? You often said you would, if you could afford it.
Professor Rubek.
The day came when I could afford it easily enough; and so I bought it.