And our secret!
PASQUINOT. The very danger was amusing.
BERGAMIN. And the things we had to say of each other--!
PASQUINOT. Very amusing.--Bergamin?
BERGAMIN. Pasquinot?
PASQUINOT. Something's lacking now.
BERGAMIN. The idea! [After a moment's reflection] Yes, I agree
with you. Funny--are you losing your sense of the romantic? [He
looks at PASQUINOT and says, aside] His waistcoat often lacks a
button! It's disgusting! [He rises and walks back and forth.]
PASQUINOT. [Looking over his paper--aside] He looks like some
immense beetle. [He pretends to be reading as BERGAMIN passes him.]
BERGAMIN. [Aside] See the ridiculous way he reads! [He whistles
as he walks away up-stage.]
PASQUINOT. [Aside] Whistling! Oh, Heavens! Don't do that,
whistling makes me nervous.
BERGAMIN. [With a smile] Remember the mote in your neighbor's
eye. You, too, get on my nerves sometimes.
PASQUINOT. I?
BERGAMIN. You tell the same story twenty times a day.
PASQUINOT. Why, I--
BERGAMIN. And when you sit down you swing your foot like a
pendulum. At meals you roll your bread in a most disgusting manner.
PASQUINOT. Ha, you take me to task for my irritating mannerisms!
But let me tell you, you are no less unpleasant.
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