Thank Heaven! Now we can have supper at last! [Opens the sliding door into the dining-room. The supper-table is seen, all set, and lighted brightly by a green-shaded hanging-lamp.]

MAGDA.

[Gazing at it.] Oh, look! The dear old lamp! [The women go slowly out.]

SCHWARTZE.

[Stretching out his hands.] This is your greatest work, Pastor.

HEFFTERDINGT.

Oh, don't, I beg you! And there's a condition attached.

SCHWARTZE.

A condition?

HEFFTERDINGT.