Chapter 28 THE CARNIVAL BALL.

"Aren't you coming to the ball, Eugen?"

"I? No."

"I would if I were you."

"But you are yourself, you see, and I am I. What was it that Heinrich Mohr in 'The Children of the World' was always saying? Ich bin ich, und setze mich selbst. Ditto me, that's all."

"It is no end of a lark," I pursued.

"My larking days are over."

"And you