STROEBEL. Who is going to pay it?
SCHMETTAU. Not we, of course. Our state is a poor paymaster.
STROEBEL. Here is a fine mess, which I cannot solve--at least not
I. Herr Beermann, you said yourself that your Society for the
Suppression of Vice is vitally interested in the undisturbed
maintenance of the popular belief in morality. For the members of
your Society, it ought to be quite easy to collect that sum. I
know of no other way.
BEERMANN [with folded hands he stands in a pensive mood]. The
Executive Committee is expecting its chairman. And I know of a
professor who alone ought to pay an extra thousand for a letter he
wrote. [To the others.] Gentlemen, briefly speaking, I will do it.
On behalf of the society, I pledge this sum.
SCHMETTAU. Herr von Beermann, I can only say that you have acted
honorably. The House of Emil the Benevolent knows on whom to
confer an order. [He offers his hand.]
BEERMANN. But let me assure you, Herr Baron, I did not do it
expecting a reward.
CURTAIN
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