HELEN
Ah, I can't bear such things. Surely it's a very merciless sport. Rough boys who throw stones at window panes are better employed.
HOFFMANN
You go too far, Helen.
HELEN
I don't know. According to my feeling it's far more sensible to break windows, than to tether pigeons to a post and then shoot bullets into them.
HOFFMANN
Well, Helen, after all, you must consider …
LOTH
[Using his knife and fork with energy.] It is a shameful barbarity.