“Nothing, nothing, it’s a song: Ottocar in his motor-car!...”
“Well, I’m off ... to meet Mamma. Good-bye, you mad old Dad!”
“Good-bye, my boy.... Come here a moment....”
“What’s the matter now?...”
“Old chap, I feel so lonely sometimes ... so terribly alone ... so forlorn.... Tell me, Addie, you’ll always be your father’s chum, won’t you?... You won’t leave me, like all the rest? You’ll stay with your old father?”
“But, Daddy, what makes you so sentimental suddenly?”
“Oh, no, I’m not sentimental ... but, my dear boy, I’m so awfully bored sometimes!”
“Then why don’t you find more to do, Daddy?”
“Oh, my boy, what would you have me do?... Oh, if I only had a car!”
“A car?...”