'It's another volume,' said the page quietly, 'of the work. It contains its conclusion, its quintessence. As you are fond of literature--'
Pauli bent his head.
'Who would not be fond of such literature?' sighed he.
'--I have been trying to get you a complete work,' continued the boy. 'I could not get both volumes of the same edition. The second volume is editio princips.'
'Ah!' exclaimed Pauli approaching the glass. 'Pour me only one page of that respectable volume.'
'But it will spoil. You must finish the bottle.'
'That's true! But the letters! The letters!' said Pauli.
'There will be none to-day.'
'Would that that were true,' Pauli sighed.
Brühl poured out another glass; Pauli drank it.