ALBERT (enters)
CHAMBERMAID (follows him, carrying the breakfast tray) I'll tell the Master at once, sir. (She puts the tray on a small table and goes out to the left)
ALBERT (picks up a moon-shaped roll from the tray and begins to nibble at one of its tips)
AMADEUS (enters, having changed his dressing-gown for a coat)
CHAMBERMAID (follows him, passes quickly across the room and goes out)
AMADEUS
Oh, there you are!
ALBERT
Yes. I'm not too early, I hope? Are you ready? I want to read you the third act. (He takes some papers from his overcoat pocket) You know the setting, of course—the park, the villa, the plane tree. But first of all I must tell you something. Do you remember Mr. von Rabagas, with whom my wife fell in love? I have retouched him slightly. He's going to be cross-eyed. And now I am curious to see what Marie's attitude will be toward him.
AMADEUS (nervously)