What’s the time? Past four? And here was I quietly attending to private matters, as though I were all alone in the world! It is time that we were thinking of others.
CURTAIN
ACT III
Scene: The same.
The curtain rises on the Burgomaster, the Secretary, Isabelle and Floris.
The Burgomaster
As you were not present at the meeting, Mr. Secretary, I will tell you what was decided. The question of the war-levy and of the fine inflicted on the town for the death of Lieutenant von Schaunberg is settled. The Major demanded five hundred thousand francs for the levy and two millions for the fine....
Floris
Two hundred thousand times what he was worth!