That is my bedroom. You must not go in.
Tarrasch.
Are they so modest, then, in Belgium, madam?
You’re fooling us. What is it? Loot? More loot?
The family stocking, eh?
(Brander enters. He goes to the table and begins eating.)
Nanko.
The stocking? No!
The stocking is in the chimney-corner, see.
(He shakes an empty stocking that hangs in the fire-place.)
Bettine and I, we always hang it up
Ready for Santa Claus. It’s a good custom.
They do it in Germany. The children there
Believe that Santa Claus comes down the chimney.
Tarrasch.