Alice. I should like to throw him into a saucepan of boiling water till he was done to rags.
Rip. [Aside.] Dat is my sister Alice—and dat is Knickerbocker—how fat they both is got since last night! What great big suppers they must have eat!
Enter Nicholas Vedder and Dame Vedder.
Dame. Oh, do try if you cannot save my poor girl!
Rip. [Aside.] Tonner unt blitzen! dat is mein frau! [Retreating.] No, no! I forget—she not is mine frau now! [Chuckles.
Dame. Let him take half the fortune and—
Vedder. What is that you observe?
Dame. Nothing—nothing!
Vedder. Then don't observe it any more.
Dame. I—I only—