Asta.
[Looks attentively at him.] What is it that has happened to you, Alfred?
Allmers.
[Smiling.] To me?
Asta.
Yes, something has happened—something seems almost to have transformed you. Rita noticed it too.
Rita.
Yes, I saw it the moment you came. A change for the better, I hope, Alfred?
Allmers.
It ought to be for the better. And it must and shall come to good.