Thoughtfully he looks away
across it._
LOTH
[_Watching him._] That's just the way you used to loosen every cigar
before smoking it eight years ago.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
It's possible--[_When he has lit and begun to smoke the cigar._] Listen
to me!
LOTH
Yes; what is it?
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
I take it that, so soon as the affair is over, you'll come along with me.
LOTH
Can't be done. I'm sorry.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
Once in a while, you know, one does feel like talking oneself out
thoroughly.
LOTH
I feel that need quite as much, as you do. But you can see from just that
how utterly out of my power it is to go ...
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
But suppose I give you my emphatic and, in a way, solemn assurance that
there is a specific, an extremely important matter that I'd like--no,
that I must discuss with you to-night, Loth!
LOTH
Queer! You don't expect me to take that in deadly earnest. Surely
not!--You've waited to discuss that matter so many years and now it can't
wait one more day? You know me--I'm not pretending.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
So I am right! Well, well ...
[_He gets up and walks about._
LOTH
What are you right about?
DR.
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