I trust that I stand up a bit above the crowd.
Ebeling.
Indeed? I thought perhaps the social glamour of the Yburgs was attracting you. A thing like that can't help dazzling one. But that you----
v. Tietz.
Is it so surprising? That girl is so bewitching--so--so entirely unlike these forward, city-bred girls. With her, at least, one knows what one can count on. She's so--so the essence of everything innocent and chaste and pure.
Ebeling (quoting).
"Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow,"--thy dowry shall not escape me.
v. Tietz.
No, no--don't joke. It's out of place. I won't deny that, as an official without fortune--that would also be very--h'm--but----
Ebeling.