CONSUL. Disappeared.
MASTER. Then I may have them after me again. [Pause] Did you see if they went with him?
CONSUL. He went alone.
MASTER. Well, then we are done with that one, at least. Number two—there remain now—the mother and the child.
CONSUL. Why is the light burning up there in their rooms?
MASTER. Because they forgot to turn it out.
CONSUL. I'll go up——
MASTER. No, don't go!—I only hope that they don't come back here!—To repeat, always repeat, begin the same lesson all over again!
CONSUL. But it has begun to straighten out.
MASTER. Yet the worst remains—Do you think they will come back?