FRAU BOLLAND. I'll have to read your novel all over again, now that I know it is all autobiographical.
FRAU BEERMANN [to Dr. Wasner]. You were going to sing, Herr Professor?
DR. WASNER. I promised ...
FRAU BEERMANN. Yes, do, Effie will accompany you.
DR. WASNER. If Fraulein will be so kind ... but I don't know how my voice is to-day ...
FRAU BOLLAND. You sing so beauti-ful-ly.
DR. WASNER. So much campaign work. Politics corrupts even the voice.
FRAULEIN KOCH-PINNEBERG. Do oblige us.
[Frau Bolland, Frau Beermann, Dr. Wasner, Fraulein Koch, Effie go out into the music room.]
BEERMANN. It's a pity that the professor is going to sing. We could have started a game of skat. Have some more cognac?