DRUNKEN MAN. Can't you get a drink? UNKNOWN MAN. No, how can I? SECOND DRUNKEN MAN. Say, what are you talking about? How can he get a drink? The man is about to die and you tempt him and try to get him excited. Listen, up there, we have been drinking your health right along. It won't hurt you, will it? FIRST DRUNKEN MAN. Ah, go on! What are you talking about? How can it hurt him? Why, it will only do him good. It will encourage him. Listen, honest to God, we are very sorry for you, but don't mind us. We are going to the café to have another drink. Good-by. SECOND DRUNKEN MAN. Look, what a crowd. FIRST DRUNKEN MAN. Come, or he'll fall and then they'll close the café. [_Enter a new crowd of tourists, a very elegant gentleman, the chief correspondent of European newspapers at their head. He is followed by an ecstatic whisper of respect and admiration. Many leave the café to look at him, and even the waiter turns slightly around, glances at him quickly, smiles happily and continues on his way, spilling something from his tray._] VOICES. The correspondent! The correspondent! Look! LADY. Oh, my, and my husband is gone again! TOURIST. Jimmie, Mary, Aleck, Katie, Charlie, look! This is the chief correspondent. Do you realize it? The very highest of all. Whatever he writes goes. KATE. Mary, dear, again you are not looking. ALECK. I wish you would order some sandwiches for us. I can't stand it any longer. A human being has to eat. TOURIST [_ecstatically_]. What a tragedy! Katie, dear, can you realize it? Consider how awful. The weather is so beautiful, and the chief correspondent. Take out your note-book, Jimmie. JAMES. I lost it, father. CORRESPONDENT. Where is he? VOICES [_obligingly_]. There, there he is. There! A little higher. Still higher! A little lower! No, higher! CORRESPONDENT. If you please, if you please, ladies and gentlemen, I will find him myself. Oh, yes, there he is. Hm! What a situation! TOURIST. Won't you have a chair? CORRESPONDENT. Thank you. [_Sits down._] Hm! What a situation! Very interesting. Very interesting, indeed! [_Whisks out his note-book; amiably to the photographers._] Have you taken any pictures yet, gentlemen? FIRST PHOTOGRAPHER. Yes, sir, certainly, certainly. We have photographed the place showing the general character of the locality-- SECOND PHOTOGRAPHER. The tragic situation of the young man-- CORRESPONDENT. Ye-es, very, very interesting. TOURIST. Did you hear, Aleck? This smart man, the chief correspondent, says it's interesting, and you keep bothering about sandwiches. Dunce! ALECK. May be he has had his dinner already. CORRESPONDENT. Ladies and gentlemen, I beg you to be quiet. OBLIGING VOICES. It is quieter in the café.