CURT. No, don't! Not that way! Leave it to me—Does he hear? Or see?
ALICE. Just now he neither hears nor sees.
CURT. And you can speak of that with such calm? Alice, what is going on in this house?
ALICE. Ask him there.
CURT. Him there? But he is your husband!
ALICE. A stranger to me—as strange as he was twenty-five years ago. I know nothing at all about that man—nothing but——
CURT. Stop! He may overhear you.
ALICE. Now he cannot hear anything.
A trumpet signal is sounded outside.
CAPTAIN. [Leaps to his feet and grabs sabre and cap] Pardon me. I have to inspect the sentries.