COLONEL.
"One may be in doubt as to whether the naïveté of the contributor is comical or tragical, but at all events he has no right to join in the discussion"—[Throwing down the paper.] Oh, that is contemptible! It is a low trick!
Enter IDA and OLDENDORF from the garden.
SENDEN (aside).
Now comes the cloud-burst!
COLONEL.
Professor, your newspaper is making progress. To bad principles is now added something else—baseness.
IDA (frightened).
Father!
OLDENDORF (coming forward).