Your promptness surpasses all expectation. Well, I accept it with, gratitude, and you know—it could be worse spent.
HOFFMANN
[Somewhat rhetorically.] A labourer is worthy of his hire. But now, Loth, have the goodness to tell me what the gentlemen in question….
LOTH
I dare say they talked nonsense.
HOFFMANN
Tell me in spite of that, please. I'm simply interested, quite simply interested—that's all.
LOTH
They discussed the fact that you had violently forced another man out of his position here—a contractor named Mueller.