Well then, for heaven's sake, don't say a word, because …
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
So you're quite regularly betrothed?
LOTH
Call it that. At all events, we're agreed.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
But what I want to know is: how did you fall in with this particular family?
LOTH
Hoffmann's an old college friend of mine. Then, too, he was a member—though only a corresponding one—of my colonisation society.