BOLZ (to MRS. PIEPENBRINK). One could have known that from the likeness.
PIEPENBRINK. This is my friend, Mr. Kleinmichel, and this, Fritz
Kleinmichel, my daughter's fiancé.
BOLZ. I congratulate you, gentlemen, on such delightful society. (To PIEPENBRINK.) Permit me to sit next to the lady of the house. Kämpe, I thought you would sit next to Mr. Kleinmichel.
[They sit down.]
Now we alternate! Waiter!
[Waiter comes to him.]
Two bottles of this!
PIEPENBRINK. Hold on! You won't find that wine here. I brought my own kind. You're to drink with me.
BOLZ. But Mr. Piepenbrink——
PIEPENBRINK. No remonstrances! You drink with me. And when I ask any one to drink with me, Sir, I don't mean to sip, as women do, but to drink out and fill up. You must make up your mind to that.