WEHRHAHN
[Drumming impatiently on the table.] Very well! Very well! Let's get on!
FLEISCHER
We rowed to the neighbourhood of the locks. A lighter lay at anchor there. The ice, we were able to observe, was piled up there. The lighter had probably not been able to proceed.
WEHRHAHN
H-m. Is that so? That interests us rather less. What is the kernel of this whole story?
FLEISCHER
[Keeping his temper by main force.] I must confess that this method of … I have come here quite voluntarily to offer a voluntary service to the authorities.
GLASENAPP
[Impudently.] His honour is pressed for time. You are to talk less and state what you have to say briefly and compactly.