Traveller and Peasant
Peasant
What brings you? …
Traveller
Taking off his spectacles and putting down his book.
There is no train till tomorrow. The station is crowded, so I asked your missis to let me stay the night with you, and she allowed it.
Peasant
That’s all right, you can stay.
Traveller
Thank you! … Well, and how are you living nowadays?
Peasant
Living? What’s our life like? … As bad as can be!
Traveller
How’s that?