HELEN gives instructions to EDWARD, who has just entered. He leaves and returns shortly, serving tea and coffee.
LOTH
This mixture, as you call him, happened to resemble an old friend of my student days most remarkably. In fact, I could have taken my oath that it was a certain—Schimmelpfennig.
HOFFMANN
[Sitting down at the breakfast table.] That's quite right—Schimmelpfennig.
LOTH
Quite right? You mean?
HOFFMANN
That his name is really Schimmelpfennig.