DOBLER. Yes. Everything danced before my eyes, and I saw it all through a hazy veil, and towards the end my hearing was affected.
BOLLAND. You don't say so? Your hearing also?
DOBLER. When any one spoke to me it sounded as if he stood a great distance off—a great distance.
FRAU BOLLAND. Our set never dreams of such things.
BEERMANN. How did it all turn out?
DOBLER. What do you mean?
BEERMANN. Well, in the end you got something to eat again?
DOBLER. Finally I fainted; I was found lying in a meadow, and was taken to the hospital.
FRAU BEERMANN [sighing]. Are such things still possible in our day?
FRAU BOLLAND. What can you expect—of these idealists! DR. HAUSER. They deserve nothing better.