MÖLLER.
That you will clear the forest?
FORESTER.
That I will not clear the forest.
MÖLLER.
That means, that you are going to resign your position as forester.
FORESTER.
That means—that you are a fool.
MÖLLER (very pompously).
I have been commissioned by Mr. Adolf Friedrich Stein, head of the firm of Stein and Son, in case you should still persist in your refusal to execute the command of your master, to announce to you your dismissal, and to notify Godfrey immediately that he is forester of Düsterwalde.