"Pray, carry to your wife and daughter the regards of--one who shall be nameless," said Sempaly with bitterness.
A short pause ensued; then he began, "What do you think of Seinsberg's suicide?"
"Suicide?" exclaimed Truyn.
"Did you not know it?" asked Sempaly.
"I suspected something of the kind," said Pistasch.
"What was the cause of it?" asked Truyn.
"Too intimate an acquaintance with the Conte Capriani?" surmised Pistasch.
"You have about hit the nail on the head, Pistasch," said Sempaly, turning his back to the stage and speaking towards the interior of the box. "It is terrible to think how many of us have fallen victims in quick succession to the rage for speculation."
"It is all over with us!" said Pistasch.
"Do have done with that eternal refrain of yours,"' said Truyn indignantly.