CAPTAIN. Not these days.
ALICE. But it couldn't be Jenny who sent in her card?
CAPTAIN. [Looks at the card through his spectacles and then turns it over to ALICE] You see what it is—I cannot.
ALICE. [Looks at the card] Curt—it is Curt! Hurry up and bring him in.
CAPTAIN. [Goes out to the left] Curt! Well, that's a pleasure!
[ALICE arranges her hair and seems to come to life.
CAPTAIN. [Enters from the left with CURT] Here he is, the traitor! Welcome, old man! Let me hug you!
ALICE. [Goes to CURT] Welcome to my home, Curt!
CURT. Thank you—it is some time since we saw each other.
CAPTAIN. How long? Fifteen years! And we have grown old——