VON KELLER.
With pleasure, my good sir, with pleasure. [Sits.] How our little town is changed by the festival! It really seems as if we were in the great world.
MAX.
[Laughing.] I advise you not to say that aloud.
VON KELLER.
What did I say? I assure you I did not mean anything. If such a misunderstanding got abroad--
MAX.
You have nothing to fear from me!
VON KELLER.
Oh, of course not. Ah, how much better it would be to know nothing of the outer world!