Helms. Why don't you hang up your cap?
Knut. I must be off in a minute. Back to school. I had only an hour's leave, and it takes half an hour to ride each way.
Buffe. How old are you, my boy?
Knut. Seventeen.
Buffe. It's sixty-one years since I was that young. He's only seventeen, Bolling.
Bolling. I was seventeen—once. Now I'm ninety-two.
Hammer. I am seventy-three.
Knut. Let's add up the number of years in this room.
Helms. There's too many. It can't be done.
Knut [with a laugh]. Let's try. [Rapidly] Mr. Bolling is 92 and grandfather is 80; that's 172.