The Awakening of Spring: A Tragedy of Childhood

by Frank Wedekind

Is Ernest Röbel promoted, too?

Moritz.

Oh, certainly, Hans, certainly!——Ernest Röbel is promoted, too.

Robert.

Then you can't have read correctly. Counting in the dunce's stool, we, with you and Robert, make sixty-one, and the upper class-room cannot accommodate more than sixty.

Moritz.

I read it right enough. Ernest Röbel is given as high a rating as I am—both of us have conditions to work off.——During the first quarter it will be seen which of us has to make room for the other. Poor Röbel!——Heaven knows, I'm not afraid of myself any longer. I've looked into it too deeply this time for that.

Otto.

I bet five marks that you lose your place.

Moritz.