FRAU BEERMANN.... Your newly acquired ways of talking are quite unbearable.
BEERMANN. Please, don't make a scene.
FRAU BEERMANN. We have been married for twenty-six years; have been very fortunate with our own children. Why worry about other people?
BEERMANN. You are not logical, my love. The mere fact that I brought up my children properly is all the more reason for my joining this movement....
FRAU BEERMANN. You didn't lose much sleep about their education.
BEERMANN. Evidently I didn't neglect anything.
FRAU LUND. I'm afraid you pride yourselves on a degree of willpower you never exercised.
BEERMANN. Never exercised? My dear Frau Lund, what do you know about the temptations which confront us men. What does a woman know about them?
FRAU LUND. The only thing we women don't know about is the manner in which these temptations terminate.
BEERMANN. Our movement intends to do away with these very deceptions. We want to protect the traditions of the home which women treasure.