KLEINMICHEL. I trust no one will be asked to sign any agreement here.
BOLZ. Perhaps not. I have no vote to cast and I am proud to be in a company where nothing else is thought of but enjoying oneself with one's neighbor and paying attention to the queens of society—to charming women! Touch glasses, gentlemen, to the health of the ladies, of the two who adorn our circle. [All touch glasses.]
PIEPENBRINK. Come here, Lottie, your health is being drunk.
BOLZ. Young lady, allow a stranger to drink to your future prosperity.
PIEPENBRINK. What else do you suppose they are going to do in there?
FRITZ KLEINMICHEL. I hear that at supper there are to be speeches, and the candidate for election, Colonel Berg, is to be introduced.
PIEPENBRINK. A very estimable gentleman.
KLEINMICHEL. Yes, it is a good choice the gentlemen on the committee have made.
ADELAIDE, who has been visible in the rear, now saunters in.
ADELAIDE. He sitting here? What sort of a company is that?