Where was the child boarding?
MRS. KIELBACKE
With Mrs. John.
HASSENREUTER
[Impatiently.] That's simply a piece of imbecility. You are quite wrong.—Spitta, you would have been much better employed accompanying the old gentleman after whom I sent you than aiding these ladies to come here.
SPITTA
I looked for the gentleman you speak of but he was already gone.
HASSENREUTER
These ladies don't seem to believe me. Will you kindly inform them, gentlemen, that Mrs. John has no child in board, and that they are quite obviously mistaken in the name.