DR. WASNER [continuing his pathetic tone]. I pass.
HAUSER. The steady contact with school children keeps our educators refreshingly naive. That man still believes in the superiority of the Teutonic element.
FRAU LUND. And in the stability of our special German moral standard.
HAUSER. Until some little scandal crops up again. By the way, we shall soon have one right in our city.
FRAU BEERMANN [with interest]. Here?
HAUSER. To-morrow you'll read all about it in the newspapers. The police have made a discovery which may prove more than they bargained for.
FRAU BEERMANN. Here? [Beerman, head sideways, listens over his cards.]
HAUSER. Last night the police arrested a woman who kept a very open house. She colored it by going under a fancy French name, and they say only entertained the best of society. She kept a diary which fell into the hands of the police.
BEERMANN [he leaves his seat, comes forward, right]. A diary?
BOLLAND [drops his cards and rises]. What sort of a diary?