What will you take ?" "A bock.

And you ?" "I will have a bock, too, since you are willing to treat me." She had addressed him with the familiar _tu_, and continued to use it, as if the offer of a drink had tacitly conveyed permission.

Then, sitting down opposite each other, they talked for a while.

Every now and then she took his hand with the light familiarity of girls whose kisses are for sale, and looking at him with inviting eyes she said: "Why don't you come here oftener?
I like you very much, sweetheart." He was already disgusted with her; he saw how stupid she was, and common, smacking of low life.

A woman, he told himself, should appear to us in dreams, or such a glory as may poetize her vulgarity.
Next she asked him: "You went by the other morning with a handsome fair man, wearing a big beard.