"Well, there's two of us now," he remarked, throwing his waistcoat on a chair.
"Yes," said Heller.
"It's a pig-sty, this," the other went on.
"Oh--is it?"
"Is it? I ought to know! But now there'll be a little life in it--yes."
"Say," asked Heller, "do you take your shirt off at night or keep it on?"
"In summer I take it off."
So Heller took his shirt off too, and lay down in the creaking bed. Soon he began to snore loudly. But Hürlin's curiosity was not yet exhausted. "Are you asleep, Heller?"
"No."
"There's plenty of time.... Tell me, you're a sailmaker, aren't you?"