[Touched on the raw, gets up.] I'll tell you something, Loth … Pshaw, why concern oneself with it at all. I vote that we think of supper. I'm savagely hungry—yes, quite savagely.
[He presses the button of an electric connection, the wire of which hangs down over the sofa in the form of a green cord. The ringing of an electric bell is heard.
LOTH
Well, if you want to keep me here, then have the kindness … I'd like to brush up a bit first.
HOFFMANN
In a moment—everything that's necessary … [EDWARD, a servant in livery, enters.] Edward, take this gentleman to the guest chamber.
EDWARD
Very, well, sir.
HOFFMANN
[Pressing LOTH'S hand.] I wonder if you'd mind coming down to supper in about fifteen minutes—at most.