FLAMM [Excitedly, to himself.] If one could only get at the throat of a creature like that!

MRS. FLAMM is wheeled in by a maid from FLAMM'S den.

MRS. FLAMM

What are you muttering about again?—[At a gesture from her the maid retires.]—Did you have any annoyance?

FLAMM

Oh, yes; a little.

MRS. FLAMM

Wasn't that Streckmann?

FLAMM

The handsome Streckmann. Yes, that was the handsome Streckmann.