It can only be the devil! (Aloud.) After that of which I have been guilty, a warm supper cannot give me back my peace!
The Masked Man.
That will follow the supper!——I can tell you this much, the girl had better have given birth. She was built properly. Unfortunately, she was killed by the abortives given by Mother Schmidt.——I will take you out among men. I will give you the opportunity to enlarge your horizon fabulously. I will make you thoroughly acquainted with everything interesting that the world has to offer.
Melchior.
Who are you? Who are you?——I can't trust a man that I don't know.
The Masked Man.
You can't learn to know me unless you trust me.
Melchior.
Do you think so?
The Masked Man.