The devil take you all! Brought up and fed a lot of—(Exit)

LIPA (handing him milk and dark bread)

You seem to be happy to-night?

SAVVA

Yes, I am, and you are happy too.

LIPA (laughing)

I am.

SAVVA

And I am happy. (He drinks the milk with avidity; the footsteps in the street grow louder, filing the room with their sound, and then die away again) What a treading and a tramping!

LIPA (looking out of the window)