“It’s all exhausted, it’s all talked out, isn’t it? And in return for that, I will also make you a promise: when I’m thirty and want ‘to smash the cup on the floor,’ then, wherever you may be, I will still come to talk things over with you once more … even from America, I assure you. I will make a point of it. It will also be very interesting to have a look at you by then, to see what’s become of you.
