ALICE. Since it is all over now—yes, it was he.
CURT. I have suspected it, but never had any certainty. It was he!
ALICE. When you placed your full trust in my husband and sent him to make peace between yourself and your wife, he made love to her instead, and taught her the trick that gave her the children.
CURT. Oh, God! God in heaven!
ALICE. There you have another side of him. [Silence.
CURT. Do you know, last night—when he thought himself dying—then—he made me promise that I should look after his children!
ALICE. But you don't want to revenge yourself on my children?
CURT. Yes—by keeping my promise. I shall look after your children.
ALICE. You could take no worse revenge, for there is nothing he hates so much as generosity.
CURT. Then I may consider myself revenged—without any revenge.