(Leonore looks at the clock involuntarily.)
Muhlingk. Well, well--just like a noble gentleman! That is good!
Wilhelm. --calling, with your permission. He named another gentleman. Count Trast, or someone----
Muhlingk. (Jumping up) What! Count Trast! Trast and Company, Kurt! The coffee King. (Motions the servant off)
Kurt. What luck that clerk has!
Muhlingk. Oh, we must invite him to the house, Amalie.
Frau Muhlingk. Very good,--to-morrow morning.
Leonore. What! and not invite Robert Heinecke too?
Kurt. (Aside) Better and better!
Muhlingk. Well, perhaps you are right. When one descends to the level of these people one really unites their interests with the interests of the firm. A thing like that often brings in thousands, Kurt. The young fellow did very well under Benno's direction and inasmuch as I'm thinking of sending him for ten years into the Antilles, I----