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 we have come to. Here we are. [Reproachfully.] How do you like it?

—Come here.

—[Goes to her.] Well?

—Sit down here. [He does so.]

—Well?

—Now ask me again how I like it.

—How do you like it?

—[On his shoulder, low.] Hyacinth I like it very much.

—[Astonished.] Upon my soul! The thing is worse than I thought. [Moves nearer to her.]

—[Still on his shoulder.] Hyacinth dear Hyacinth I  I

—Well, my child? What is it? Out with it!

—Hyacinth that glass of wine it was the first I ever drank in my life, too.

—For a first drink it was a hearty one.

—[With a glance at .] For his sake, Hyacinth. So that they wouldn't laugh at him.

—Fancy that! You amaze me. And how did it taste?

—[Delighted.] Made me fuddled and warm I wish I could die like