HASSENREUTER
[Who still holds the apparatus aloft in his hands.] What are you?
KÄFERSTEIN
[As before.] We want to adore the babe.
HASSENREUTER
Ha, ha, ha, ha! If you are the kings out of the East, gentlemen, it seems to me that the third of you is lacking.
KÄFERSTEIN
The third is our new fellow pupil in the field of dramaturgic activity, the studiosus theologiae, who is detained at present at the corner of Blumen and Wallnertheater streets by an accident partly sociological, partly psychological in its nature.
DR. KEGEL
We made all possible haste to escape.