Falk.
But it was just the <g>Book</g> which failed, you see,
As Jacob's ladder—
Lind.
How perverse you are!
That is what people say when they are <g>free</g>—
Falk
[looking at him and folding his hands in silent amazement].
Thou also, Brutus!
Lind [with a shade of confusion and annoyance].
Pray remember, do!
That I have other duties now than you;
I have my fiancée. Every plighted pair,
Those of prolonged experience not excepted,—
Whose evidence you would not wish rejected,—
Will tell you, that if two are bound to fare
Through life together, they must—
Falk.
Prithee spare
The comment; who supplied it?
Lind.
Well, we'll say
Stiver, he's honest surely; and Miss Jay,
Who has such very great experience here,
She says—
