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SCENE -- _A Second-Class Compartment on the line between Wurzburg and Nuremberg._ PODBURY _has been dull and depressed all day, not having recovered from the parting with_ MISS TROTTER. CULCHARD, _on the contrary, is almost ostentatiously cheerful._ PODBURY _is intensely anxious to find out how far his spirits are genuine, but -- partly from shyness, and partly because some of their fellow travellers have been English -- he has hesitated to introduce the subject. At last, however, they are alone, and he is determined to have it out on the very first opportunity._
CULCHARD. Abominably slow train, this _Schnell-zug_. I hope we shall get to Nuremberg before it's too dark to see the general effect.