Did you have any particular business there?--You needn't get impatient at all. I understand that it doesn't concern me at present. Your sympathetic affinity for the working classes is known to us from of old.--The boy will be arrested now. I imagine that Constable Tschache has captured him. At all events--is on his trail. He was seen, in Rahnsdorf too. Please call in Sadowa! [_GLASENAPP withdraws by the rear door._ DR. BOXER Am I dismissed now, your honour? WEHRHAHN Extremely sorry; no. Kindly wait.--Mrs. Schulze, where is your nephew keeping himself today? I haven't seen him all day long. Does any one know where Constable Schulze is? EDE [_Softly._] He might send out a warrant after him. WEHRHAHN Doesn't any one know where Constable Schulze is?--Has any one interviewed Mrs. Fielitz? Or hasn't she returned from Berlin yet?--I want somebody to go to Councillor Reinberg.--[_To GLASENAPP, who is just returning._] Mr. Schmarowski, Mrs. Fielitz's son-in-law, is there submitting his building-plans. The news should be broken to him gently. EDE [_Softly to BOXER and LANGHEINRICH._] Yes, gently, so he don't stumble over the church steeple. [_DR. BOXER and LANGHEINRICH restrain their laughter with difficulty._] WEHRHAHN [_Observing this._] Does that strike you as very amusing?--I don't know what other reason you should have to laugh, Langheinrich. When people are hardworking and ambitious and a fright like this comes to them--a visitation from God--we might properly say: God protect us from such things! I see nothing to laugh at.--Did you have the impression ... did the boy seem to you ... I mean, in reference to this affair--as if things were not quite right with him? EDE [_Softly to BOXER and LANGHEINRICH._] We knows where he ain't quite right! WEHRHAHN Did he arouse your suspicion? Yes or no? Or did the thought actually occur to you that he might have started the fire? DR. BOXER No. I have become too much of a stranger here. The conditions seem to overwhelm me. WEHRHAHN In what respect? DR. BOXER [_With assumed seriousness._] I have returned from a very narrow life. Out on the ocean one becomes accustomed to a certain narrowness of outlook. And so, as I said, I hardly feel capable of any comment for the present and must ask for the necessary consideration. WEHRHAHN We're not discussing conditions. The thing that lies before us is a concrete case. For instance: whether the boy tootled or not--what has that to do with narrowness or breadth of outlook? DR. BOXER Quite right. I haven't been able to get a general view yet. I can't so suddenly find my way again. I feel, naturally, the importance, the seriousness of the conditions here at home and that makes me feel hesitant. WEHRHAHN He did tootle this way, through his hand, didn't he? You heard that too, didn't you, Langheinrich? LANGHEINRICH Sure, he did it right out loud. EDE