ou are not made to see other
people suffer.
JOHANNA (_shrinks slightly at those words_)
FELIX
Suffer ... and ...
JULIAN (_enters_)
How are you? (_He shakes hands with Felix_)
JOHANNA (_who has risen_)
Mr. Fichtner. (_She holds out her hand to him_)
JULIAN
I could hardly recognize you, Johanna. You have grown into a young lady
now.--Has your father not come home yet?
JOHANNA
He hasn't gone out yet. He has nothing to do at the Academy until
twelve.
JULIAN
I suppose he's in his studio?
JOHANNA
I'll call him.
[_Julian looks around. As Johanna is about to leave the room, Wegrat
enters, carrying his hat and stick._
WEGRAT (_giving his hand to Julian_)
I'm delighted, my dear fellow.
JULIAN
I heard of it only after my arrival here yesterday--through Sala. I
don't need to tell you ...
WEGRAT
Thank you very much for your sympathy. I thank you with all my
heart.--But sit down, please.
JULIAN
You were going out?
WEGRAT
Oh, it's no hurry. I have nothing to do in the Academy until twelve.
Johanna, will you please get a carriage for me, just to be on the safe
side?
[_Johanna goes out. Wegrat seats himself, as does Julian. Felix stands
leaning against the glazed oven._
WEGRAT
Well, you stayed away quite a while this time.
JULIAN
More than two years.
WEGRAT
If you had only got here ten days earlier, you could have had a last
look at her. It came so very suddenly--although it wasn't unexpected.
JULIAN
So I have heard.
WEGRAT
And now you are going to stay right here, I suppose?
JULIAN
A little while. How long I am not yet able to tell.
WEGRAT
Of course not. The making of schedules has never been your line.
JULIAN
No, I have a certain disinclination for that kind of thing. (_Pause_)
WEGRAT
Oh, mercy, my dear fellow ... how often have I not been thinking of you
recently!
JULIAN
And I....
WEGRAT
No, you haven't had much chance for it.... But I.... As I enter the
building where I now hold office and authority, I remember often how we
two young chaps used to sit side by side in the model class, full of a
thousand plans and hopes.
JULIAN
Why do you say that in such a melancholy tone? A lot of those things
have come true, haven't they?
WEGRAT
Some--yes.... And yet one can't help wanting to be young again, even at
the risk of similar sorrows and struggles....
JULIAN
And even at the risk of also having to
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