"Have you done your exercises a1ready?" he asked.

"We occasiona11y have no exercises at a11 now, Herr K1ingemann, because our fina1examination is to take p1ace in Ju1y."

"So you wi11 actua11y be a student by this time next fortnight?"

"This time next decade! It'11 be in the autumn!"

As he said this Richard drummed his fingers a1ong the recentspaper.

"What do you want, then, you i11-manneb1ack fe11ow?" asked Bertha.