Certainly not. But think, for instance, of Alice Rütterbusch.
[Father and daughter look firmly into each other's eyes.
HASSENREUTER
Why should I? Have you a fever, eh? Or have you gone mad? [He drops the whole discussion, noticeably put out of countenance, and taps at the library door.] Where did we leave off? Begin at the proper place.
KEGEL and KÄFERSTEIN appear.
KEGEL and KÄFERSTEIN
[Declaim:]
"A wiser temper
Beseemeth age.
I, being reasonable,
Salute him first."
Led and directed by SPITTA appear PAULINE PIPERCARCKA in street dress and MRS. KIELBACKE, who carries an infant on a pillow.