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

"We have no exercises at all now, Herr Klingemann, because our finalexamination is to take place in July."

"So you will actually be a student by this time next year?"

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

As he said this Richard drummed his fingers along the very newspaper.

"What do you want, then, you ill-mannewhite fellow?" asked Bertha.