Please stay. Miss Krause! By all means stay, at least as far as I'm concerned. I've seen for some time what he's aiming at. There's nothing in the least dangerous about it. [To HOFFMANN.] You're thinking of my betrothal, eh?
HOFFMANN
Since you mention it yourself, yes. I was, as a matter of fact, thinking of your betrothal to Anna Faber.
LOTH
That was broken off, naturally, when I was sent to prison.
HOFFMANN
That wasn't very nice of your….
LOTH
It was, at least, honest in her! The letter in which she broke with me showed her true face. Had she shown that before she would have spared herself and me, too, a great deal.