CAPTAIN. We get things like these instead of laurel wreaths, such as they give to actresses.
ALICE. That's for the wreaths at home on the walls of the tower——
CAPTAIN. Which your brother gave you——
ALICE. Oh, how you talk!
CAPTAIN. Before which I have had to bow down these twenty-five years—and which it has taken me twenty-five years to expose.
ALICE. You have seen my brother?
CAPTAIN. Rather! [Alice is crushed. Silence] And you, Curt—you don't say anything, do you?
CURT. I am waiting.
CAPTAIN. Well, I suppose you know the big news?
CURT. No.