BOURGEOIS. Good! We are saving each other! Very good! But after the war, Monsieur, England will fight against France, hein?
SUBALTERN. Never!
BOURGEOIS. Never?
SUBALTERN. Never in life!
BOURGEOIS. You think so?
SUBALTERN. We do not love war. We do not seek war. It is only when a nation is so execrable that one is compelled to fight, as have been the Germans, that we make war.
BOURGEOIS. You do not love war, eh? Before the war you had a very small Army, about three hundred thousand, is it not so? And now you have about three million. You do not love war, you others.
SUBALTERN. The Germans thought that they loved war, but I do not believe that they will love it very much longer!
BOURGEOIS. No! The war will give them the stomach-ache. They will love it no longer!
COIFFEUR. But these English, whom did they fight before? The Boers, was it not?