FLEISCHER
This man sat on his deck in a fur coat which, at a distance, I considered a beaver coat.
WEHRHAHN
[Bored.] I might have taken it to be marten.
FLEISCHER
I pulled as close up to him as possible and thus gained a very good view. The man was a poverty-stricken, slovenly boatman and the fur coat seemed by no means appropriate. It was, in addition, a perfectly new coat …
WEHRHAHN
[Apparently recollecting himself.] I am listening, I am listening! Well? What else?
FLEISCHER
What else? Nothing.