Just have patience a few days longer; why, good fortune must have some time to grow; who would expect to become happy all of a sudden, so to speak? My good man, that happens only in books; in the world of reality things do not move so quickly.
FISCHER.
Now just listen, the cat dares to speak of the world of reality! I feel almost like going home, for I'm afraid I shall go mad.
LEUTNER.
It looks almost as if that is what the writer intended.
MÜLLER.
A splendid kind of artistic enjoyment, to be mad, I must admit!
GOTTLIEB.
If I only knew, dear Hinze, how you have come by this amount of experience, this intelligence!