ACT IV.
SCENE I.
Aulic Counsellor Reissman's, the same room as in the preceding act.
Aulic Counsellor Reissman enters in a passion; Sophia follows.
Reiss. Not a word, not a word more, not a single syllable of that silly fool! What, to leave me and you, as if we were infected with the plague and breathed contagion? I cannot bear the affront, it shall not go unavenged. I had rather die a thousand deaths.
Soph. Was it not his father that desired him to go with him? and you know he ought to obey him.
Reiss. Who am I, and what is his father? Do not name him any more in my hearing; you must not see him any more, nor even think of him. That petty Privy Counsellor is now dead and buried to me.
Soph. By your advice I listened to his addresses.
Reiss. Forget him then by my command.