POSTMASTER [showing the letter]. Read for yourself.
GOVERNOR [reads]. "As an old horse." Impossible! You put it in yourself.
POSTMASTER. How could I?
ARTEMY. Go on reading.
LUKA. Go on reading.
POSTMASTER [continuing to read]. "The Governor is as stupid as an old horse—"
GOVERNOR. Oh, the devil! He's got to read it again. As if it weren't there anyway.
POSTMASTER [continuing to read]. H'm, h'm—"an old horse. The Postmaster is a good man, too." [Stops reading.] Well, here he's saying something improper about me, too.
GOVERNOR. Go on—read the rest.
POSTMASTER. What for?