GER. Well, you've seen the world in your own way. Now are you ready to go back to Nibelheim?
HAGEN. Good God, no!
GER. You know it's my duty to send you back.
HAGEN. Oh, say! My dear fellow!
GER. You know the solemn promise I made to King Alberich.
HAGEN. Yes... but you can't carry it out.
GER. But I can!
HAGEN. How?
GER. I could invoke the law, if need be. You know you are a minor...
HAGEN. My dear boy, I'm over seven hundred years old!