Old Woman: You might have been an Orator-General, if you'd had a little
more will-power in life . . . I am proud and happy to hear that at last you've
decided to speak to all the countries of Europe, to all the continents of the
world!
Old Man: But I find it so difficult to express myself; things don't come easily to
me.
Old Woman: Once you begin, things come easily enough, like life and death . .
. you just have to make up your mind. It's as we speak that we find our ideas,
our words, ouselves too, in our own words, and the city, the garden, perhaps
everything comes back and we're not orphans anymore.
Old Man: I shan't do the talking myself, I've engaged a professional orator to
speak in my name, you'll see.