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BOLLAND [interrupting him]. We are waiting for you, Herr
Professor. Are you finally going to announce your cards?
DR. WASNER [continuing his pathetic tone]. I pass.
HAUSER. The steady contact with school children keeps our
educators refreshingly naive. That man still believes in the
superiority of the Teutonic element.
FRAU LUND. And in the stability of our special German moral
standard.
HAUSER. Until some little scandal crops up again. By the way, we
shall soon have one right in our city.
FRAU BEERMANN [with interest]. Here?
HAUSER. To-morrow you'll read all about it in the newspapers. The
police have made a discovery which may prove more than they
bargained for.
FRAU BEERMANN. Here? [Beerman, head sideways, listens over his
cards.]
HAUSER. Last night the police arrested a woman who kept a very
open house. She colored it by going under a fancy French name, and
they say only entertained the best of society. She kept a diary
which fell into the hands of the police.
BEERMANN [he leaves his seat, comes forward, right]. A diary?
BOLLAND [drops his cards and rises]. What sort of a diary?
HAUSER. Oh! Just a naughty little inventory of all of her
visitors.
BEERMANN. What is the name of the lady?
HAUSER. Some French name which sounds to me like rouge.
BEERMANN. I can't understand how you could forget her name.
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