HAUTEVILLE. Mais Monsieure!
STROEBEL [shouting]. No "Monsieur" about it. Here you'll talk good plain English.
HAUTEVILLE. But why are you getting so excited?
STROEBEL [to Reisacher]. I am nice to this person. I reason with her, and she says that she will first have to learn how to expose her crowd. [Shouts.] Decency is what you'll have to learn and I'll teach it to you.
HAUTEVILLE. Oh, not this very minute.
STROEBEL. I know you. I know your sort! You want to gain time so that you can concoct the blackest lies.
HAUTEVILLE. [calmly]. That would be entirely superfluous. The cleverest lie could not help me half as much as the simple truth.
STROEBEL. Out with it!
HAUTEVILLE. It's better if you find it out through someone else.
STROEBEL. That's your opinion.