Ulrich. They are keeping watch.
Bastian. They are drilling.
Ulrich. Always!
Jean. Ah!
Bastian. Day and night.
Ulrich. Never resting.
Bastian. Perhaps they are trailing some deserter.
Jean. Ah! There are deserters?
Bastian. They won’t tell you so in the town.
Odile. But we on the frontiers see them.