Master Clarenbach, Frederica, and Gernau, busy with bringing in the furniture seen in the first Act.
Clar. Courage, my dear children! about it! Thank God, we have got rid of that fashionable trumpery. Set the table again there in its place.-- So!---how glad I am to behold my old friends again!
Fred. We shall have a comfortable repast on that table to night.
Clar. As Jack is to be one of the party, O yes!
Gern. I hope his change is right earnest; but I can scarcely believe it.
Clar. No reflections, dear Gernau! What is past ought to be forgotten.
Gern. But I must remove hence for all that.
Clar. Why, perhaps not. Jack will now employ his power to some good purpose.
Fred. I wonder where he stays so long.
Clar. He is dissolving the partnership of sin with Reissman.