[Exit.
P. Coun. (to Reissman.) For heaven's sake!
Reiss. Poh! no matter, (Calls after Wellenberg.) Mr. Wellenberg!
Well. (turns round, without however coming back.) Well? Pœnitet me?
Reiss. What ails Dr. Kannenfeld?
Well. A burning fever.
Reiss. So? Ho ho! A burning fever!--ha, ha, ha! old gentleman!--and his intellects? When a man lies in a raging fever, and denounces honest people, what credit ought to be attached to it?
Well. In lucidis intervallis?
Reiss. Burning fever is only another word for madness; the denunciations of a madman is valid only with madmen.
Well. Shall I take them in the presence of witnesses? Shall the faculty make an affidavit of the state of his mind?