DAVID
I am dazed—I cannot realise that all our troubles have melted away—it is so sudden.
VERA
You, David? Who always see everything in such rosy colours? Now that the whole horizon is one great splendid rose, you almost seem as if gazing out toward a blackness——
DAVID
We Jews are cheerful in gloom, mistrustful in joy. It is our tragic history——
VERA
But you have come to end the tragic history; to throw off the coils of the centuries.
DAVID [Smiling again]
Yes, yes, Vera. You bring back my sunnier self. I must be a pioneer on the lost road of happiness. To-day shall be all joy, all lyric ecstasy.