CURT. You have been travelling abroad, I have heard.
ALICE. We have been down to Copenhagen five times—think of it?
CAPTAIN. Well, you see, when I took Alice away from the stage——
ALICE. Oh, you took me?
CAPTAIN. Yes, I took you as a wife should be taken——
ALICE. How brave you have grown!
CAPTAIN. But as it was held up against me afterward that I had spoiled her brilliant career—hm!—I had to make up for it by promising to take my wife to Copenhagen—and this I have kept—fully! Five times we have been there. Five [holding up the five fingers of the left hand] Have you been in Copenhagen?
CURT. [Smiling] No, I have mostly been in America.
CAPTAIN. America? Isn't that a rotten sort of a country?
CURT. [Unpleasantly impressed] It is not Copenhagen.