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FRÁŇA ŠRÁMEK
LIDKA: I'll go and tidy up the room. . .
MRS. LEDYNSKA: You stay where you are . . . I'll see about that myself. It's always a little amusement for me.
JENIK (pushing away the empty plate): I was reminded of you last night.
MRS. LEDYNSKA (affecting horror): Oh-h-h!!
JENIK: Ha, ha, it was really getting on for morning, though.
LIDKA: Now we're going to hear something. (Sits down at the table.)
JENIK (eating the cutlet): Well, we landed ourselves into one of those shanties. The youth of to-day—mother, won't you tell us something about the youth of today? Well then, in this shanty . . . yes, there were some partitious in this shanty. Tra-la-la-hop!
LIDKA (inquisitively): Well, and . . . what?
MRS. LEDYNSKA: Jenik, perhaps you'd better . . .
JENIK: Ha, Lidka is inquisitive.
LIDKA: You poke fun at everything—
JENIK: Well, let's stick to the truth: I do laugh. Without this salad I shan't digest a thing—
LIDKA (with expectant inquisitiveness): Well now, Jenik, what was there in this shanty?
MRS. LEDYNSKA: Don't ask him about it, it's a lot of nonsense, anyhow.
JENIK: There were, there were . . . partitions, and. . .ha, ha. . .
