Then may I remain with you for a while?
Several Voices.
[Outside, calling.] Pastor, Pastor!
Pastor.
[Speaks through door.] I will be with you in a moment! [To Marie.] Well, may I!
Marie.
Why, certainly, if it gives you pleasure!
Pastor.
Pleasure is hardly the proper word. I wanted to thank you for insisting upon my writing the bridal-poem. It has been a work of pleasure, I assure you. Do you like it?