GESKE. Already so commended, my dear lady! You have but to speak frankly to me or to Master Herman—I mean to Burgomaster von Bremenfeld. What service we can do to you or to those dear to you, you shall never lack.
COUNCILLOR'S WIFE (kissing her apron). Your most humble servant!
GESKE. Adieu! (Exit the Councillor's Wife.) Let us go in, for my husband is giving audience here.
ACT V
SCENE I
(Same as Act IV. Henrich, alone.)
HENRICH. Well, well, here comes grist to my mill; it's the audience hour. Now, you shall see, good people, if a man who had been twenty years in the service could bear himself better than I.—There's some one knocking. Whom do you wish to see, my good men?
(Enter two Lawyers.)
FIRST LAWYER. We should very much like to have the honor of speaking to the burgomaster.
HENRICH. He is not up yet.