I take things more seriously than ever. [He gets up and walks up and down with SCHIMMELPFENNIG, always keeping slightly behind the latter.] You can't possibly know, and I can't possibly explain to you, what this thing means to me.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
Hm!
LOTH
Man, you have no notion of the condition I'm in. One doesn't know it by simply longing for it. If one did, one would simply go mad with yearning.
DR. SCHIMMELPFENNIG
Let the devil try to understand how you fellows come by this senseless yearning.
LOTH
You're not safe against an attack yourself yet.