DAVID [Overwhelmed, ecstatic, yet wincing a little at the slap on his wound.]

Be one of your first——

[Remembering]

Oh, but it is impossible.

VERA [Alarmed]

Mr. Quixano! You must not refuse.

DAVID

But does Herr Pappelmeister know about the wound in my shoulder?

PAPPELMEISTER [Agitated]

You haf been vounded?