[Respectfully.] No, no; that's right enough. It ain't identical.
PAULINE
This baby here is identical enough all right, even if it's a bit underfed an' weakly. This business with the child is all straight enough! I'll take an oath that it's identical all right.
HASSENREUTER
I am simply speechless. [To his pupils.] Our lesson is ruled by an evil star to-day, my dear boys. I don't know why, but the error which these ladies are making engrosses me. [To the women.] You may have entered the wrong door.
MRS. KIELBACKE
No, me an' the gentleman from the guardian's office an' the young lady went an' fetched this here child outa the room what has the name plate o' Mrs. John on it, an' took it out into the hall. Mrs. John wasn't there an' her husband the mason is absent in Hamburg.
POLICEMAN SCHIERKE comes in, fat and good-natured.
HASSENREUTER
Ah, there's Mr. Schierke! What do you want here?