ACT IV.
[An old-fashioned office. Left, office door, separated from the main office by a wooden railing. Between this door and railing are two benches; an old cupboard. In the background; three windows with view of the sunlit sea. In front of the middle window a standing desk and high stool. Right, writing table with telephone—a safe, an inside door. On the walls, notices of wreckage, insurance, maps, etc. In the center a round iron stove.]
[Kaps, Bos and Mathilde discovered.]
Mathilde.
Clemens!——
Kaps.
[Reading, with pipe in his mouth.] “The following wreckage, viz.: 2,447 ribs, marked Kusta; ten sail sheets, marked ‘M. S. G.’”
Mathilde.
Stop a moment, Kaps.