Slowly he puts his cigar on the window sill and enters the Commander's room cautiously.
STEIN
He's a lucky fellow. You may say what you please about luck, but it exists. Who is this Blumenfeld? Von?—Did you know his father? Or his grandfather?
RITZAU
I have reason to believe that he had no grandfather at all. But he is a good comrade.
Blumenfeld comes out and rejoins the two officers, taking up his cigar.
STEIN
Another military secret?
BLUMENFELD
Of course. Everything that is said and done here is a military secret. But I may tell you about it. The information we have received concerns our new siege guns—they are advancing successfully.