20. Says Paul with a smile: “Good of you, but you should have mentioned the main reason: the rough Tirolian being right in that it’s the little hussy that’s caught your eyes! Only truth in future therefore- because no soul can hide ulterior motives before us here! But go and bring the little hussy your compliments, and keep in mind she already is someone’s wife – the man’s at her side!”

21. Says the joker: “I thank you for this instruction, which is strictly true, but it would be somewhat unseemly to pay her my compliments while she converses with her husband! Yet the longer I look at her the more familiar her face, and his too! He has an uncanny resemblance to the notorious. . . hm. . . can’t think of his name! His looks are those of a leading democrat I saw frequently in Vienna a couple of years ago.”