Frau von Yburg will be here in a few minutes.--Ask her!

v. Tietz.

What do you take me for?

Ebeling (shrugging his shoulders).

Oh, well then----

v. Tietz.

But just think! that man--forty, if he's a day, fat, worn out, a roué whose amorous adventures are common gossip to every cabby on the street!

Ebeling.

Pardon me, my clients are all virtuous, young, handsome, desirable--of inestimable pulchritude.

v. Tietz.