And is Mr. Hoffmann upstairs, too?
EDWARD
Yes, an' I can tell you, he's goin' on like a woman.
LOTH
Well, I suppose it isn't very easy to have to watch that.
EDWARD
You're right there, indeed. Dr. Schimmelpfennig came just now. There's a man for you: rough as rough can be—but sugar ain't nothing to his real feelings. But just tell me what's become of little, old Berlin in all this …
[He interrupts himself with a Gee-rusa-lem! as HOFFMANN and the DOCTOR are seen coming down the stairs.
HOFFMANN and DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG enter.