MAGDA.
[Astounded and incredulous.] What--what do you say?
VON KELLER.
Why, it would ruin us. No, no, it is absurd to think of it. But we can make a little journey every year to wherever it is being educated. One can register under a false name; that is not unusual in foreign parts, and is hardly criminal. And when we are fifty years old, and other regular conditions have been fulfilled, [laughing], that can be arranged, can't it? Then we can, under some pretext, adopt it, can't we?