Falk [gaily].
Why then, provided only there's enough of it, Even family-founders will obey their Calls.
Strawman.
Of course; a man assured the quantum suff of it Will preach the Gospel to the cannibals.
[Sotto voce.
Now I must see if she cannot be led,
[To one of the little girls.
My little Mattie, fetch me out my head—
My pipe-head I should say, my little dear—
[Feels in his coat-tail pocket.
Nay, wait a moment tho': I have it here.
[Goes across and fills his pipe, followed by his wife and children.
Guldstad [approaching].
You seem to play the part of serpent in This paradise of lovers.
Falk.
O, the pips Upon the tree of knowledge are too green To be a lure for anybody's lips.
[To Lind, who comes in from the right.
Ha, Lind!
