WEHRHAHN
[Observing this.] Does that strike you as very amusing?—I don't know what other reason you should have to laugh, Langheinrich. When people are hardworking and ambitious and a fright like this comes to them—a visitation from God—we might properly say: God protect us from such things! I see nothing to laugh at.—Did you have the impression … did the boy seem to you … I mean, in reference to this affair—as if things were not quite right with him?
EDE
[Softly to BOXER and LANGHEINRICH.] We knows where he ain't quite right!
WEHRHAHN
Did he arouse your suspicion? Yes or no? Or did the thought actually occur to you that he might have started the fire?
DR. BOXER
No. I have become too much of a stranger here. The conditions seem to overwhelm me.
WEHRHAHN
In what respect?