No, Dame Cousin, he gave a banquet the other day on his mother’s birthday, and did not ask us.
FRAU BRENDEL.
Ah, indeed!
FRAU MORGENROTH.
Perhaps the Herr Board-of-Revenue-Supernumerary-Secretary Wittmann?
FRAU BRENDEL.
No, Dame Cousin; my husband, the late Herr Brendel, had a law-suit with him about his drains.
FRAU MORGENROTH.
That alters the matter.
FRAU STAAR.