BOLLAND. Yes—wifey?
FRAU BOLLAND. Thursday the circus comes to town, don't forget to reserve seats.
BOLLAND. All right!
FRAU BOLLAND [while going out]. I'm still a child when the circus comes.
[Frau Lund seats herself on sofa. Next to her on the right Frau Beermann; Beermann and Bolland sit opposite in large leather chairs. Hauser is standing behind the sofa leaning against it.]
FRAU LUND [to Hauser]. Tell me Judge, where have you been keeping yourself all this time?
HAUSER. In my office, Frau Lund, only in my office. But I hear that you were on the Riviera.
FRAU LUND. Four weeks in Monte Carlo. Children, I gambled like an old viveur.
BEERMANN. What luck?
FRAU LUND. I lost, of course—I'm too old to set the world on fire. But, Beermann, I hear all sorts of surprises about you. You are a candidate for the Reichstag?