[Coughs.] When I—about a year ago—took up my residence in the Villa Krueger, I had naturally no suspicion of the character of the people with whom I was to dwell under one roof.
WEHRHAHN
Yon were acquainted with neither Krueger nor Fleischer?
MOTES
No; but you know how things go. Living in one house with them I couldn't keep to myself entirely.
WEHRHAHN
And what kind of people visited the house?
MOTES
[With a significant gesture.] Ah!