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.