GERARDO.
GERARDO (alone, tries to sing). "Isolde! Beloved! Art thou ..." I
should think these women might get tired of me _some_ time! But, then,
the world holds so many of them! And I am only one. Well, everybody
bears his yoke and has to bear it! (Walks to the piano and strikes two
thirds.)
[Illustration: SIEGFRIED WAGNER]
FROM OLAF GULBRANSSON'S "FAMOUS CONTEMPORARIES"
Permission Albert Langen, Munich