Quick, quick!
CHILDREN (crying).
I want my bread and butter! My bread and butter!
BURGOMASTER (following them).
Will you hold your tongues?
FRAU STAAR.
Frau Chief-Raft-and-Fishery-Master, you will have the kindness to precede me.
FRAU BRENDEL.
Never, Frau Town-Excise-Treasury-Secretary. I most urgently beg you——
FRAU MORGENROTH.