DR. WASNER [knowingly]. If you but knew, Frau Lund!
FRAU LUND. I don't have to call and see your collection. Frankly, to me, the most obscene picture in your gallery could not be more disgusting than the talk you carry on in your meetings.
BEERMANN. Oh! Oh!
FRAU LUND. The nudity of the human body is not disgusting. It is the nudity of your mind. No vice is as repulsive as that virtue of yours which loudly uncovers itself in public—in market places. Vice has at least the shame to hide itself.
BEERMANN [to Bolland]. Can you understand her?
BOLLAND. I must admit, I can't.
DR. WASNER. Gnadige Frau stated that vice hides itself. But in spite of that it exists.
BOLLAND. Yes, she admitted that it exists.
DR. WASNER. Shall we tolerate it merely because it crawls into dark nooks and corners?
FRAU LUND. You reformers! Let more sunshine into this world and vice will not find so many dark corners and nooks to hide in.