TESMAN.

[Jumps up.] What! On your--and Aunt Rina's annuity!


MISS TESMAN.

Yes, I knew of no other plan, you see.


TESMAN.

[Placing himself before her.] Have you gone out of your senses,
Auntie? Your annuity--it's all that you and Aunt Rina have to
live upon.


MISS TESMAN.

Well well--don't get so excited about it. It's only a matter of
form you know--Judge Brack assured me of that. It was he that was
kind enough to arrange the whole affair for me. A mere matter of
form, he said.


TESMAN.

Yes, that may be all very well. But nevertheless---