That's the lucky part of it, after all.
The roaring of the fire alarm trumpet is heard.
MRS. SCHULZE
You hear, Doctor? They're tootin' already!
LANGHEINRICH
[Reappears in his fireman's uniform.] You get out o' the way here, old lady. Go an' attend to things upstairs. Nothin' to be done here with a syringe. You go up to my wife. Hold on! We gotta have the key to the engine house. The devil!
MRS. SCHULZE withdraws into the house. RAUCHHAUPT'S head reappears on the other side of the fence.
RAUCHHAUPT
My, but there's a smell o' burnin' in the air.