Well?

Brauer.

My child loves you. You are her ideal, her all, and the wedding must take place. But tell me, what right have you to all this pride--I might even say arrogance?

George.

Must I perhaps ask your permission----?

Brauer.

That is the same old defiance, the same unreasonable stubbornness of your father's!!!!!

George.

[Starts.] My father has been dead these twenty years--what do you want of him now?

Brauer.