LEUTNER.
Really beautiful diction in that scene!
MÜLLER.
But I wonder whether it is essential to the whole?
SCHLOSS.
I never worry about the whole; if I cry, I cry—that's enough; that was a divine passage.
HINZE.
Such a pair of lovers is good for something in the world after all; they have fallen plump into the poetical again down there and the stamping has ceased. There's no game to be caught.
(A rabbit creeps into the bag; he rushes over and draws the strings over him.)
Look here, good friend! A kind of game that is a cousin of mine, so to speak; yes, that's the way with the world nowadays, relatives against relatives, brother against brother; if one wants to get through the world oneself, one must push others out of the way.